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Wed 11 Nov 2008Talk reveals star-gazing ways of medics in Middle Ages
SCIENCE WEEK IRELAND:A PHYSICIAN providing treatment during the Middle Ages would have been as concerned about the patient's star sign as about good medical practice. He would have thought that a blood letting could be fatal if done under the wrong sign.
The nature of medical practice in the later Middle Ages was up for discussion yesterday at NUI Maynooth when Dr Carrie Griffin delivered a lecture entitled Plagues, Barbers and Humours: a look at Medicine in the high Middle Ages (1300-1500)as part of Science Week Ireland.
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