Johan Turi's Medical Knowledge

A Descriptive Database by Thomas A. DuBois and Jon Lang

 

Techniques and Ingredients

[currently under construction]

Anesthetics

Ashes

Bear's tooth

Birch bark

Bird bones (thigh)

Blood staunching

Bloodletting

Boiling leaves

Boneworm (lytta) removal

Bundle of Reins (Taphrina Betulina)

Burning

Butter

Canvas

Childbirth

Coffee

Cognac

Compress

Copper

Cupping

Dog blood

Downy birch buds

Drinking straw

Enema

Fat

Fir resin

Fish entrails

Fish oil

Fox gold

Frogs (Rana arvalis, Rana temporaria, or Bufo bufo)

Goat leg bone

Gunpowder

Hair pulling

Healing words

House martin nest litter (Delichon urbicum)

Kettle soot

Lice

Liquid from a corspe

Love-awakening

Massage

Measuring

Mercury

Milk

Moss

Moxibustion

Nursing a child

Oatmeal

Pain relief

Pine resin

Powder

Quicksilver

Reindeer blood

Reindeer cheese

Reindeer fat

Reindeer jaw bone

Resuscitation

Rubbing

Sand

Sail-cloth

Skin

Sod

Sorrel

Snow

Stabbing with an awl

Stinking Assa

Strychnine

Sulfur

Sweat

Tar

Temperature changes

Tinder (Fomes fomentarius)

Transference

Turpentine

Urine

Vomitting

Witches broom

Wool

Yellow mica

 

 

 

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