Curious cures for medieval maladies

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🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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If you feel unwell today you can pick up a prescription or head to a medical centre, but how did ill people treat their ailments in the Middle Ages? A major new project at Cambridge University Library aims to find out, by digitising, cataloguing and conserving over 180 medieval manuscripts, containing well over 8,000 medical recipes. Dr James Freeman speaks to Emily Briffett about what these weird and wonderful recipes – using ingredients like puppy stomachs and eel grease – can tell us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.3	Today, we've got a wealth of medicine available to us,
0:52.6	often easily taken in our own homes. But how did a person
0:56.8	in the middle ages cure something as simple as a headache? Well, a major new project at Cambridge
1:03.1	University Library is aiming to find out. They're digitising, cataloguing and conserving over
1:09.9	180 medieval manuscripts,
1:12.5	containing well over 8,000 unedited medical recipes,
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