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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…
Open archive record →The surviving casebooks of astrologer-physicians Simon Forman and Richard Napier record roughly 80,000 consultations from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and name more than 60,000 people, from servants to nobles. Most consultations…
Open archive record →Thomas Potts’s The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, published in 1613, is the principal detailed printed source for the Pendle witch trials. It preserves names, examinations, allegations and the sequence…
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