The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts ...

Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.

Take three or four weasel testicles and half a handful of young mouse-ear [a plant] and burn it all equally in an earthenware ...

Testimony in one 15 th -century manuscript records how a friar at Stamford was cured of his nosebleeds by dipping his testicles into cold water and vinegar. Another records the apparently successful ...

Dr Freeman said medieval medicine “wasn’t simply superstition or blind trial-and-error”. A 14th century manuscript containing over 800 pictures and describing a herbal treatment for a snake ...

Dr Freeman said medieval medicine “wasn’t simply superstition ... later at the back of the book use the same spices and common herbs that are found time and time again in more common recipe ...