Curious Cures by Nigel Cawthorne £20 donation this novel explores love and

this novel explores love and learning

convinced that God had abandoned his children

political and public-health responses evoked by disease-related disasters across  the globe

you'll find genius and foolishness

'An engaging new social history of magic

Curious Cures by Nigel Cawthorne £20 donation this novel explores love andDid you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey? Or that weak eyes can be cured by the application of chicken dung or alternatively by large draughts of beer taken in the morning? The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Many of them though enthusiastically supported by the doctors of the time were often useless, and sometimes