Data Mining a Medieval Medical Text Reveals Patterns in Ingredient Choice That Reflect Biological Activity against Infectious Agents

ABSTRACT The pharmacopeia used by physicians and laypeople in medieval Europe has largely been dismissed as placebo or superstition. While we now recognize that some of the materia medica used by medieval physicians could have had useful biological properties, research in this area is limited by the...

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Main Authors: Erin Connelly, Charo I. del Genio, Freya Harrison
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/fc924ef7328d444b9c735cc5519e2576
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