Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries is a Wellcome-funded project to conserve, catalogue and digitise 186 medieval manuscripts that contain in excess of 8,000 unedited medical recipes.

In many ways, this manuscript documents an intermediate stage between earlier utilitarian medical texts and later speculative works. While some passages hint at growing theoretical …

Dec 8, 2024 · Theoretical Underpinnings: In medieval humoral theory, headaches were often attributed to an imbalance of bodily humors, particularly an excess of cold and moist humors. …

Feb 6, 2018 · An introductory guide to the main primary sources for studying early medieval herbal remedies in Old English texts. Researching medieval herbal formulations has become …

Aug 21, 2022 · The University of Cambridge has embarked on a two-year project to catalogue, digitize and conserve 180 medieval medical manuscripts in the Cambridge Libraries collection.

Abstract: This article examines a fifteenth-century remedy book, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson c. 299, and describes its collection of 314 medieval medical prescriptions. The …

Bloodletting was one of the most frequently employed medieval health cures. It was supposed to relieve a wide range of health issues. Bloodletting tied in with the medieval belief that health …

Periodic bloodletting was practiced in medieval religious communities, where healthy men and women were bled at regular intervals as a prophylactic measure (Yearl 2007: 176).

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The underlying principle of medieval medicine was the theory of humours. This was derived from the ancient medical works, and dominated all western medicine up until the 19th century.