Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments have been revealed in a new exhibition at the Cambridge University Library.

Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, looks at how medical practitioners of the time sought to understand and treat illness with often strange methods. Dr James Freeman, the exhibition's ...

Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments – including an infertility cure made from weasels’ testicles – will feature in a new exhibition at Cambridge University Library. Curious Cures: ...

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts ... the texts grant delightful insight into the folk medicine commonly practiced at the time. Many ...

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 ...

Weasel testicles, stargazing and royal remedies feature in an exhibition on our ancestors’ quest to cure everything from ...

Throughout the medieval period, there were over 1,000 ... The monasteries also preserved ancient ideas about medicine.

Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World looks at how medical practitioners of the time sought to understand and treat illness with… strange methods. One 15th Century manuscript compiled by ...

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What you probably won’t do, is look to the remedies used in the days of medieval medicine. Take a trip back five centuries with BBC Bitesize as we look at the methods physicians employed then ...

Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World looks at how medical practitioners of the time sought to understand and treat illness with often strange methods. Dr James Freeman, the exhibition’s ...