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fromOpen Culture
2 weeks ago

Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles

A Wellcome Research Resources Award-funded project of the University of Cambridge Libraries has recently finished conserving, digitizing, and making available online 190 manuscripts containing more than 7,000 pages of medieval medical recipes.
Medicine
fromMail Online
1 month ago

The weirdest medieval medicines you could try today...if you dare

So, would you dare to try out any of these weird medieval cures?
Alternative medicine
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fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

Medieval Healers Used Nettles to Treat Wounds, Not Just to Sting, Study Finds - Medievalists.net

Nettles, viewed as both a nuisance and remedy, played a crucial role in medieval healing practices and their modern comparisons.
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