Jennifer Sherman Roberts One of the most challenging tasks in deciphering early modern medical recipes is knowing what illness the recipe is meant to treat. Some recipes address recognizable conditions: cancer, miscarriage, bruises. Some are for diseases whose names have changed significantly: the king’s evil (scrofula), the bloody flux (dysentery), consumption (tuberculosis). And some seem plain enough at first but then reveal confounding and intriguing details. One such example is in the recipe book of Mrs. Corlyon (Wellcome MS.213), “The trew cause whence many … Continue reading Hang Your Head: Mrs. Corlyon’s Unique Headache Treatment
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