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 Thousands of unedited medical recipes - from a gout cure that involves stuffing a puppy with snails and sage to a cataract treatment that uses the gall bladder of a hare - are to be published by Cambridge university library. Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries is a two-year project to digitise, catalogue and conserve over 180 medieval m...