Curious medieval cures, including a treatment for gout that involved baking an owl then grinding it into a powder, are to be shared with the public online by Cambridge University Library.

What you probably won’t do, is look to the remedies used in the days of medieval medicine ... for gout in the 21st Century. “Take an owl and pluck it clean and open it, clean and salt it.

Curious medieval cures, including a treatment for gout that involved baking an owl then grinding it into a powder, are to be shared with the public online by Cambridge University Library.