Book review: Dragon’s Blood & Willow Bark by Toni Mount

Dragon’s Blood & Willow Bark by Toni Mount

An interesting compendium of the various treatments and cures provided by medieval doctors. As it turns out, they were much better in some areas, in particular the treatment of battlefield injuries, than you might expect: men survived some truly horrific injuries and lived to fight another day. However, there was a little too much of the old and tired trope of the Church banning research. Nevertheless, a good research book for the period.

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