Remnants of spills on Renaissance-era textbook reveal recipes for 'curing' ailments with lizard heads and human feces A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be from lizards and hippos.

Lizard heads and human feces - you find the darndest things in old medical tomes. Not to mention the descriptions of the actual cures! www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #ewww #folkmedicine #washyourhands #bettertobebald