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First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds

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Biomolecular analysis of medieval parchment 'birthing girdle'


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IMAGE: Medieval English Birth Scroll. MS.632 (c. 1500), Wellcome Collection. The girdle contains prayers and invocations for safe delivery in childbirth. Biomolecular evidence supports its active use.
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Childbearing in medieval Europe was a highly perilous time with considerable risks for both mother and baby.
Difficulties occurring during childbirth or through postpartum infection, uterine prolapse or other complications caused a high death-toll for women.
The Pre-Reformation Church in England offered numerous talismans or relics to pregnant women hopeful for a safe delivery; the most oft-recited of these items loaned out by monasteries to their parishioners is a birthing girdle. ....

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