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Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics

  • Written by Erin Connelly, CLIR-Mellon Fellow for Data Curation in Medieval Studies, University of Pennsylvania
imageA recipe for an eyesalve from 'Bald's Leechbook.'© The British Library Board (Royal MS 12 D xvii)

For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously suggests that it was unenlightened by science or reason. However, some medievalists...

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