ailments

Cholera from bad water? E Coli from poorly handled meats? Cross contamination? Food poisoning? Does anyone know what were some constant threats to the health of a legionary soldier besides battle? What about appendicitus? Did the surgeons have a procedure for this?

King Alfred the Great, who fiercely led the resistance against the viking invasions and so is often acclaimed as saving what was then becoming known as 'Angle-Land', or England. Yet he suffered from some mysterious but painful and recurring illness. Asser (Alfred's Welsh biographer) wrote...