Grinding up vulture brain, mixing it with oil and inserting it into the nose to cure head pain sounds ridiculous to us.
But that sort of medieval medicine actually represents a huge advance: acceptance of the logic that humans could use our brains to try things to cure disease -- and to the monks who wrote the recipe, acceptance of a responsibility to God to take care of human bodies.
@TheConversationUS There are treatises from the II century BCE, unearthed at the Ma Wang Dui, with complex pharmacological prescriptions (using natural products).
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