Dr James Freeman, the exhibition’s curator, said: ‘The remedies in these manuscripts take you to the medieval bedside and reveal the strange and surprising things that physicians and healers ...

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

Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and ...

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370 BC, was an important figure in the ancient medical world. The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was hailed by Medieval doctors as the ‘Father of Medicine’. He as one of the earliest ...

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 ...

We’ve translated many of the recipes on display.’ Dr Freeman said medieval medicine ‘wasn’t simply superstition or blind trial-and-error’, but guided by ‘elaborate and sophisticated ...

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