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 ...

Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a ...

Irish actress Caitríona Balfe won a Bafta for her performance in Kenneth Branagh’s film Belfast and is also known to many as Claire in time travel drama series Outlander. Caitríona joins Nuala ...

Dr Freeman said medieval medicine “wasn’t simply superstition ... “However, the medical recipes that were added later at the back of the book use the same spices and common herbs that ...