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How medicine was practised in the Middle Ages

The oldest documented hospital in Switzerland was founded in St Gallen in the 8th century. The exhibition “Abracadabra” in the library of St Gallen’s Abbey now provides a rare insight into the history of medicine in the Middle Ages. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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