Datamining a medieval medical text reveals patterns in ingredient choice that reflect biological activity against the causative agents of specified infections Erin Connelly* Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies,...
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Datamining a medieval medical text reveals patterns in ingredient choice that reflect biological activity against the causative agents of specified infections Erin Connelly* Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19010 erincon@upenn.edu Charo I. del Genio School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK c.i.del-‐genio@warwick.ac.uk Freya Harrison School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK f.harrison@warwick.ac.uk Abstract (150 words) The pharmacopeia used by physicians and lay people in medieval Europe has largely been dismissed as placebo or superstition. While we now recognise that some of the materia medica used by medieval physicians could have had useful biological properties, research in this area is limited by the labour-‐intens
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