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The MEDICAL project explores medieval leprosy treatment by analyzing dental calculus from skeletal remains in historic leprosy cemeteries. This research aims to uncover the medical practices and ingredients used in leprosaria in Northern Europe during the medieval period.
Leprosy was an iconic disease in medieval Europe.
From the 11th century, several leprosy hospitals were founded as a mitigative response to the risk of infection.
Medieval treatises and chronicles suggest that leprosy was treated with medicinal plants and other ingredients of mineral and animal origin.
However, very little is known about the methods used to diagnose and treat this disease within leprosaria, and medical treatments of leprosy have very rarely put in their physical context so far.…
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
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