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 ...

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

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The exhibition reveals some of the strange and surprising ways medieval medics tried to cure their patients. | ITV News Anglia ...