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Jaw dropping medieval medical cure suggested using roasted dogs to treat gout

A collection of medieval medical treatment recipes that will be published by Cambridge University Library show that people have long suffered from illnesses and afflictions like toothaches and headaches. But the cures suggested in medieval times, such as baked owl to cure gout, are certainly unusual to our modern eyes.

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Curious Cures: Stuffed puppy and ground owl among curious medieval cures to be shared online

Curious medieval cures, including a treatment for gout that involved baking an owl then grinding it into a powder, are to be shared with the public online by Cambridge University Library.

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Curious Cures: Cambridge to Publish Astonishing Medieval Medical Manuscripts

Salted owl, fox lungs and even roasted puppy, not ingredients in a witch’s brew but cures from medieval medical manuscripts all soon to be released by Cambridge University.

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Salted owl and roasted puppy: Cambridge University to digitise medieval cures

Curious Cures is a two-year project to conserve more than 180 manuscripts, revealing the ‘precarity of medieval life’ and strangeness of pre-scientific medicine

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Stuffed puppy and ground owl among strange cures for common illnesses shared by Cambridge university

Stuffed puppy and ground owl among strange cures for common illnesses shared by Cambridge university
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