Middle Ages may make you wonder about the minds of today’s doctors, but a new exhibition of visitors is scheduled to take the minds of these paramedics and reveal the way they can look like madness.
Carner treatments, opened on Saturday In the Cambridge University Library, it is Coating a project For digitization and classification of more than 180 manuscripts, most of which are from the fourteenth or fifteenth century, which contains prescriptions for medical treatments, from groups of treatments to alchemy and evidence to healthy life.
Among the elements offered to the surgical plans that motivate WINCE, illustrations such as Zodiac Man-which depict the various parts of the body associated with the signs of stars-and the recipes themselves, along with translations.
What is clear is that while people from the Middle Ages faced many of the same diseases that patients suffer today, they dealt with them in a different way.
One of the offered manuscripts, dating back to the fifteenth century, indicates that women can treat infertility by burning two testicles Ibn Arms in a bowl with mouse’s ears-a type of herb-for a constructed construction that is placed in the cervix for three days.
“After these three days, she should have intercourse with a man and should be depicted without delay,” says the manuscript.
Another recipe suggests treating lice using a mixture of mercury and roasted apples.
However, while some treatments may seem worrying to modern eyes, Dr. James Freeman, Secretary of the ExhibitionHe said it was a misconception of medieval medicine based on experience and blind error, or complete myths.
He said: “People thought about the Middle Ages about things.” “They are smart, rational, curious and intensively interested in trying to understand how the body works, what caused and what can treat the disease.”
In an attempt to help visitors enter the mind of paramedics in the Middle Ages, the exhibition explores how people believed at that time that the body works, including the idea of the four humor developed by the Romanian Galen.
“In fact, there was a very sophisticated and sophisticated thinking system in which medical practitioners worked,” Feriman said, adding that although the use of animal parts may seem strange and unlikely, it should be seen in the context.
He said: “People in the Middle Ages lived in a world in which creation was designed by God and all the plants and animals that were placed within it for the benefit of man.”
“Thus, I think that two testicles Ibn Arms are used as part of a treatment for infertility,” said Freeman.
However, Freeman pointed out that many recipes do not give a source or justification, with each other – such as Apple and Mercury Cure to lice – apparently based on a personal experience or knowledge.
The exhibition also explores the role of astrology and even magic in medieval medicine, and highlights how people see at that time. Among the exhibits is a copper rubbing of a plate commissioned by the Academy of Oxford Sir Ralph Hamsterley, before his death in 1518, depicting his skeleton shrouded in worms and requests prayers for his soul.
The group of medical practitioners is also covered, which reveals that, as well as educated doctors, members of religious orders, barber, and ordinary therapists who treat patients, with women who are known to practice medicine.
However, Freeman said that his work in the exhibition has not yet inspired him to try any means of recession in the Middle Ages himself.
He said: “He made me happy to be alive in the twenty -first century, for all our current problems.”
