Medieval cures frequently blurred the line between magic and medicine. Many manuscripts contain charms and rituals alongside herbal remedies, and there are even instructions on how to make amulets ...
Take three or four weasel testicles and half a handful of young mouse-ear [a plant] and burn it all equally in an earthenware ...
Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.
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 bite(Joe ...
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 ...
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