medical advances

  1. Drunkrobot

    What was the highest level of sanitation/medicine plausible in Medieval Europe?

    So let's talk shit. Most historians seem to agree that Europe in the Middle Ages, most particularly the period of the High Middle Ages from about 1000 CE to 1300 CE, was very far from the completely ignorant and plague-riddled mud farmers portrayed by Monty Python, but it would also be too much...
  2. PC: Slightly higher U.S. population growth c. 1970-2018

    Here's something I never thought I'd post a thread about: population growth. For a timeline that I'm working on, I have medical technology progressing more quickly from a combination of the following: higher funding from both government and private sources, faster computer chips leading to...
  3. Medically Ill Royals Who Could Be Capable Nowadays

    This is something I was thinking of earlier, and I'm not really sure where it should go, so if the Mods can help in that regard, I'd be grateful. In their day, some royals suffered from things that would be reasonably easy to cure/control nowadays - Rudolf of Austria's depression or Queen...
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