How they took a cure 800 years ago. From icliverpool.co.uk:
Medieval monks used herbs to treat ailments such as rickets and TB centuries before the discovery of modern drugs like penicillin.
Now, 800 years later, research has allowed gardeners at a Cheshire monastery to recreate a 12th-century medical herb garden for the first time.(...)
The garden stands on the ground where monks from Norton Priory, near Runcorn, would have grown their herbs when the monastery's infirmary was built in 1134.
Academics from Oxford University and experts from Kew Gardens used ancient manuscripts stored in the Bodleian Library to ensure authenticity. [continue]
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Norton Priory Museum and Gardens