New Cambridge University exhibition reveals medieval infertility 'cure' including weasel testicles
The exhibition reveals some of the strange and surprising ways medieval medics tried to cure their patients. | ITV News Anglia ...
Weasel testicles and chickweed: Medieval doctors’ strange fertility treatments revealed
The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts ...
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Weasel testicles infertility cure features in exhibition on medieval medicine
Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.
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The weirdest medieval cures you could try at home... if you dare: Manuscripts reveal bizarre methods 15th century doctors used to 'cure' common illnesses
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 tried ...
Manuscripts show how medieval doctors ‘cured infertility using weasels’ testicles’
One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...
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Weasel testicles and chickweed: Medieval doctors’ strange fertility treatments revealed
Dr James Freeman, the exhibition’s curator, explains that the manuscripts "take you to the medieval bedside and reveal the strange and surprising things that physicians and healers tried to make ...
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Weasel testicles infertility cure features in exhibition on medieval medicine
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 ...
Weasel testicles were 'once used to cure infertility' during Medieval times
Take three or four weasel testicles and half a handful of young mouse-ear [a plant] and burn it all equally in an earthenware ...
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Manuscripts show how medieval doctors ‘cured infertility using weasels’ testicles’
‘The remedies in these manuscripts take you to the medieval bedside and reveal the strange and surprising things that physicians and healers tried to make their patients well again. We’ve ...