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Brennessel, Barbara - Drout, Michael D. C. - Gravel, Robyn, "A reassessment of the efficacy of Anglo-Saxon medicine", Anglo-Saxon England, 34 (2005), 183-195.

Resum: Laboratory in vitro testing of various remedies from the Old English Leechbooks and Lacnunga does not support previous assertions that Anglo-Saxon medical remedies would have been efficacious. For example, the remedy for a stye in the eye takes ingredients that individually have anti-bacterial properties and compounds them into a mixture with no effect on common bacteria. We conclude that Anglo-Saxon remedies were not likely to have cured the ailments for which they were prescribed and that researchers, rather than asserting the probable prowess of the Anglo-Saxon læce, should instead focus on what people in the time period believed would have helped them.
Matèries: Medicina
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