Karfunkel - Ancient Herbal Wisdom No. 18

The cover story is:

The Civic Hospital in the Middle Ages—Founders, Beneficiaries, and Social Shelter

Also:

• Marginalized Groups as Ancient Healing Professions: Blacksmiths, Shepherds, Executioners

• Ancient Remedies: Viper Meat

• Forgotten diseases: hemophilia

• Proverbs from folk medicine: All about sleep

• Medieval herbals: The Hortus Sanitatis—Garden of Health

• Flaxseed, flaxseed oil, flax

• Field St. John’s Wort

• Millet: A Small but Powerful Grain

• Vitamin B12 Deficiency: Myths & Facts

• From the Kitchen: Pepper Land

• Lucid dreaming

Includes a poster:

The mandrake (Fructus mandragorae) from the Tacuinum sanitatis, 14th century

Length: 100 pages