Seamus O'Caellaigh Presents: Medieval Medicinal Plants, 18+YRS

Modern minds look at plants and see pretty flowers andpossibly aseasoning for their next dinner. APre-Modernmind saw treatments for pustules, pestilence, and pain. Explore treatments, medical texts, and the diagnostic techniques of Tudor England, and see that plants from the garden were not just another pretty flower. Come for thepresentation, andleave with a self-made salve. SeamusOCaellaighis the author ofPustules, Pestilence, and Pain: Tudor Treatments and Ailments of Henry VIII. Books will be available for sale at the event.