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The dangers of Anglo-Saxon London

Examination of skeletal remains has revealed that common ailments included earache, toothache, headache, wounds, burns, and pain in the joints. Another source of information on this subject is manuscripts offering medical advice; some remedies deal specifically with female matters, often mixing common sense and superstition. A pregnant woman ought to be fully warned against eating anything too salt or too sweet, and against drinking strong alcohol: also against pork and fatty foods; also against drinking to the point of drunkenness, also against travelling; also against too much riding on horseback lest the child is born before the right time.

Illness and early death were common; also there were robbers, murders, sorcerers. There were also horrible diseases such as plague, flu, sickness, TB, mental illness.

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