Dr Freeman, the library's curator of medieval manuscripts, said: "The body contains four fluids - black bile ... ones we find in more popular or folk medicine compilations - the lines between ...

Hailing from Ancient Greece, but working in different time periods, both men retained their strong influence on medicine into the medieval era. Hippocrates had developed an idea known as the four ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World ... It says: “Take three or four weasel testicles and half a handful of young mouse-ear [a plant ...

Medieval people were no exception ... Adam drew on the idea that bloodletting would regulate the humors (the four fluids ...

Medieval people were no exception ... Adam drew on the idea that bloodletting would regulate the humours (the four fluids thought to make up the body: blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) ...