Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What would the Medievals want with a burnt owl, a chopped-up cat, or dove faeces? How do you help a bald man with gout? Or a woman with ‘blocked menses?’

If they weren’t too complicated, most medicines in the Middle Ages were homemade. Many were quite practical, and most of the ingredients make sense to us because they are still recognisable today. Others are just downright freaky…

0:00 Introduction
0:37 Curious Cures
1:55 Eyes Down
3:29 A Recipe for Happiness
5:16 What a load of cr*p
6:39 Snips, Snails, and Puppy Dogs Tails


🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions

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