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Research using Richard Napier’s early seventeenth-century casebooks has examined how women’s work in childcare, sick care, household medicine and livestock management could place them close to moments of illness, infant death or unexplained animal…
Open archive record →Much everyday healthcare in early modern England began within the household. Families prepared syrups, poultices, foods and remedies, and knowledge circulated through relatives, neighbours, manuscript recipe books and printed texts. Domestic medicine could combine…
Open archive record →Cambridge University Library preserves a manuscript associated with Thomas Wort, a fifteenth-century informal healer. It contains more than two hundred Middle English medical recipes. The manuscript is evidence that practical medical knowledge did not…
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