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Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages
ISBN: HB: 9781851244768, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2017
112 pp., 17x11 cm
"For a zitty face. Take urine eight days old and heat it over the fire; wash your face with it morning and night". In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some...
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Great Medical Discoveries An Oxford Story
ISBN: PB: 9781851240036, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2013
96 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 colour illus.
The "miracle drug" penicillin was first given intravenously to a patient in Oxford on 12 February 1941, leading to a transformation in the way that bacterial infection is understood and treated. What was to become one of the greatest stories in biome...
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Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache? Medical Advice from 1769
ISBN: HB: 9781851243822, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2012
208 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 26 black&white illus.
What common condition can be treated with cow dung? How do crushed oystershells ease heartburn? Can eels cure deafness? And how do you stop a stubborn case of the hiccups? If someone was struck down by illness or injury in the late eighteenth century...
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