http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item126570.html
https://viticodevagamundo.blogspot.ca/2013/09/medieval-and-renaissance-pharmacy.html
https://www.history.sciencesource.com/history-of-medicine/
Physic garden Glasgow
https://youtu.be/qsUXt2g6hmQ?t=17m22s
Leprosy
https://youtu.be/UTjziLWD-Aw?t=13m40s
Medieval Dead - Season 1, Episode 6: Disease and Pestilence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv8KFoItkFU
Ways of Death in The West: Medieval Medicine - Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PO6tkoNq4
Leprosy, plague, sweating sickness
What was sweating sickness? - The Anne Boleyn Files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwSjvIixzP8
https://youtu.be/8OvPzvAB3EI?t=10m4s
Diagnosing illness in the 15th Century - Dan Snow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEqw0o1cEc
Natural abortifacients, ergotism, Darnel
An abortifacient is a substance that induces abortion. Numerous non-pharmaceutical abortifacients existed during the pre-pharmaceutical era. These included herbal, mineral, and ritualistic or spiritual preparations. Their effectiveness is difficult to determine. Of those that remain in use in the modern day, some are considered effective to a lesser or greater degree; while others are very effective, but carry negative side effects (primarily toxicity) which keep them from wider prevalence.
Today, many herbs and plants sold "over the counter" are claimed to act as abortifacients, either by themselves or if taken in certain doses or mixtures. Examples include brewer's yeast, vitamin C, bitter melon, wild carrot, blue cohosh, pennyroyal, nutmeg, mugwort, papaya, vervain, common rue, ergot, saffron and tansy. Animal studies have shown that pomegranate may be an effective abortifacient.
n English law, abortion did not become illegal until 1803. English folk practice before and after that time held that fetal life was not present until quickening. "Women who took drugs before that time would describe their actions as 'restoring the menses' or 'bringing on a period'." Abortifacients used by women in England in the 19th century (not necessarily safe or effective) included diachylon, savin, ergot of rye, pennyroyal, nutmeg, rue, squills, and hiera picra, the latter being a mixture of powdered aloe and canella.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortifacient#Natural_abortifacients
Abortifacients
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamomile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniperus_sabina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daucus_carota
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugwort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentha_pulegium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruta_graveolens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drimia_maritima
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veratrum_nigrum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranate
Prunella vulgaris, heal-all
Heal-all is a perennial herb found throughout Europe, Asia and North America, as well as most temperate climates. In Ireland it is generally abundant.
Prunella vulgaris (known as common self-heal , heal-all, woundwort, heart-of-the-earth, carpenter's herb, brownwort and blue curls) is an herbaceous plant in the genus Prunella.
Self-heal is edible: the young leaves and stems can be eaten raw in salads; the plant in whole can be boiled and eaten as a potherb; and the aerial parts of the plant can be powdered and brewed in a cold infusion to make a beverage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunella_vulgaris
Cultivated Rx - Healing Plants, Grow Your Own Medications - antharch
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEFMsUiiH113A8MG1Xk3AaMTZ6C4J_kZi
Medicinal Foraging, Grow Your Own - Savoir La Plante
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzaIHF4QCazzshdqtjtdYKpi1TdjABHsd
Plants - Medicinal & Toxic - Ben Silver
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYZbCEPmWCtPpS_7wwmX4ltD_y_YuACro
Morphine
Spread of morphine ..
Medicinal Plants ~ Ben
18th century America
Monastic herb garden - Tudor Monastery Farm
https://youtu.be/YucMjWINERI?t=29m4s
Hissop - Tudor Monastery Farm
https://youtu.be/YucMjWINERI?t=33m19s
Infirmary - Tudor Monastery Farm
https://youtu.be/YucMjWINERI?t=35m16s
Herbal remedies - Jacobean - sage oil, alembic
https://youtu.be/Dm0DxC7tMEk?t=10m57s
elderbud salve
https://youtu.be/Dm0DxC7tMEk?t=14m33s
https://youtu.be/Dm0DxC7tMEk?t=18m22s
Apothecary - Victorian - Cream for chapped hand - lard, honey, oatmeal, egg yokes, rosewater
https://youtu.be/dHAlKpXpvk4?t=14m11s
Lip salve - alkanet, olive oil, mutton fat, white wax
https://youtu.be/dHAlKpXpvk4?t=18m11s
Medicinals - Victorian - sage gargle
https://youtu.be/LJOVnV4iJGU?t=34m28s
Chilblains - egg & water whisked in oil, turpentine, vinegar, brandy, camphor
https://youtu.be/LJOVnV4iJGU?t=39m15s
Collecting herbs WW2
Foraging for medicinals - 2d/lb for rosehips
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=34m22s
90% of medicines were plant based - meadowsweet (ASA), white willow bark (ASA), cleavers (infection) - 4K tons/year
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=21m4s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=24m36s
Drying herbs (35C, well-ventilated, dark) - 80% of weight lost - sage 5d/lb, foxglove (digitalis) seeds 7s 6d/lb & leaves 1s 3d/lb, [Atropa belladonna (atropine)]
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=31m18s
WW2: nettles used for treatment of asthma
https://youtu.be/2GgJQkbtJyI?t=7m10s
Cultivated Rx - Healing Plants, Grow Your Own Medications - antharch
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEFMsUiiH113A8MG1Xk3AaMTZ6C4J_kZi
Plants - Medicinal & Toxic - Ben Silver
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYZbCEPmWCtPpS_7wwmX4ltD_y_YuACro
Medicinal Foraging, Grow Your Own - Savoir La Plante
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzaIHF4QCazzshdqtjtdYKpi1TdjABHsd
Why Plague Doctors Wore Strange Masks > .
Bathing was uncommon .
