Hild’s bynames #4: Hægtes
What exactly is a ‘hægtes’, and how do you draw one if you don’t know what it is?
Read more "Hild’s bynames #4: Hægtes"What exactly is a ‘hægtes’, and how do you draw one if you don’t know what it is?
Read more "Hild’s bynames #4: Hægtes"Anglo-Saxon medicine is a mix of empirical treatment and sophisticated psychological techniques. The trick with placebo and nocebo—for both the medieval practitioner and the modern—is in understanding what the stricken patient believes. These beliefs change over time.
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