Nostradamus - or Michel DE Notredame, as he was known - began his career as an apothecary and plague doctor.
Nostradamus had gout, which by 1566 turned to edema.
Born in France, in 1503, Michel DE Nostradame A.K.A Nostradamus was a physician, astrologer and a fluent speaker of Greek, Latin and Hebrew.
Baba Vangas's prophecies made her famous; probably not as famous as Nostradamus, but still, for a humble, illiterate, blind Bulgarian she made headlines all over the world.
If an event made headlines for more than a few weeks, rest assured that someone, somewhere, is holding up a copy of Nostradamus' 400 year old tome and claiming that he knew it would happen all along.
However, Nostradamus was purposefully vague and cryptic in each of his predictions, leaving them open for interpretation.
And unless you're Nostradamus, this is a formidable challenge.
