A rare 500-year-old medical text is being displayed at the University of Aberdeen.
From a piece in the Daily Mail...
The De Hortus Sanitatis, which translates as the Garden of Health, shows some of the medical methods practiced in Scotland five centuries ago and is one of the earliest European medical texts.
The book, first printed in Mainz, Germany, in 1491, is a fusion of late medieval science and folklore.
It contains detailed writings and annotated illustrations on plants, herbs, animals, and minerals.
Meanwhile, detailed illustrations reveal how physicians used to study the colour of urine to make diagnoses.
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