💨 Abstract

The Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World exhibition at Cambridge University Library showcases unusual treatments found in medieval manuscripts, including a bizarre weasel balls infertility cure. The exhibition reveals that medieval medicine was guided by elaborate and sophisticated ideas about the body and the wider world, and was not limited to university-educated doctors but also used by monks, friars, surgeons, apothecaries, midwives, and regular people.

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