Collected Item: “Poultry against the Pestilence: Early Modern Surgeons’ treatments for the Plague”
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Poultry against the Pestilence: Early Modern Surgeons’ treatments for the Plague
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During a three hundred year period from the 14th to the 17th century plague physicians, surgeons, and other medical practitioners reprised ancient forms of knowledge, as well as devising innovative treatments for the disease, producing a wealth of textual evidence. Thomas Banbury, this year's HLCE grant holder, has scoured the library for plague tracts and found one of the most outlandish and superstitious-seeming recommendations called the "Live Chicken Cure".
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A contemporary woodcut image of a hen “Gallina” from Conrad Gessner”s Icones auium omnium, 1606.
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Blog
Subject (1)
History of Medicine
Geographical Area (1)
Britain and Ireland
Geographical Area (2)
Europe
Time Period
Medieval
Time Period (2)
16th-17th Century
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https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-publications/library/blog/poultry-against-the-pestilence/