[Sca-cooks] Recipe to cure leprosy

[Galefridus Peregrinus]

I'll do some poking around in Avicenna this evening -- the first volume 
of the Canon of Medicine should mention it as an illness and the second 
may mention appropriate foods.


-- Galefridus

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> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:30:40 +0200
> From: Susan Lord To: "sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org" Subject: 
> [Sca-cooks] Recipe to cure leprosy
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> Do we have a medieval recipe to supposedly cured leprosy? I have read 
> that black snake soup was one but know not where that recipe might be.
> Also, I have read that potatoes were first thought to cause leprosy 
> but they are not in period