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Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics
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Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics

By Erin Connelly, CLIR-Mellon Fellow for Data Curation in Medieval Studies, University of Pennsylvania. A 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…


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