Herbal Remedies for Abortion and Contraception. Herbs were central to medieval contraceptive and abortifacient practices, ...

A thousand-year-old treatment recorded in an early medieval medical text has shown powerful antibacterial effects against ...

Dr Freeman said medieval medicine “wasn’t simply superstition or blind trial-and-error”. A 14th century manuscript containing over 800 pictures and describing a herbal treatment for a snake ...

Herbal remedies are alternative medicines derived from plant matter. For centuries, people have used the leaves, seeds, stems, and oil extracts of various plants in medicine.

Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.

Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments – including an infertility cure made from weasels’ testicles – will feature in a new exhibition at Cambridge University Library. Curious ...