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Category: Leiden Leechbook

6 Aug 20186 Aug 2018 thijsporck Leiden Leechbook, Manuscripts, Medieval medicine

Cooked crow’s brains and other early medieval remedies for headaches from the Leiden Leechbook

The ninth-century manuscript fragment known as the Leiden Leechbook is a unique witness to medical practice in the early Middle Ages and the multilingual nature of the documents from this period.

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