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

which altogether contain more than 8,000 medical recipes. Medieval figures practicing medicine from Ruggero Frugardo, Chirurgia, MS O.1.20. By permission of the Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a healthy life. The cures include the use of crushed weasel testicles to ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts detailing treatments ranging from the commonplace to the truly peculiar, ...

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

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 ...