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Showing posts with label Ancient Anti-Microbiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ancient Anti-Microbiology. Show all posts

Saturday, 16 May 2015

Bald's Eye Salve And Other Ointments

Anglo Saxons were not as medically ignorant as we once thought ..... 
 
Anglo-Saxon Cures - 'Bald's Leechbook'
Anglo-Saxon Cures - 'Bald's Leechbook'
 
While the later Middle Ages, doctors moved into quackery, the early Middle Ages, under the Anglo-Saxons saw a far different approach. The latest studies suggest that the Anglo-Saxon healers (usually monks or friars ... think Cadfeal) were using observational experimentation to determine the effectiveness of their cures. 
 

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