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[RobGea]

In Tom Johnson's column in the "London Review of Books", a review of this book,

"Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England 
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Chicago, 299 pp., £36, August 2023, 978 0 226 82533 5"

In the Wellcome Collection, there is a 15th-century parchment roll that
... would have been wrapped ... around a woman’s waist during delivery for ritual protection.
... on the front of the roll are invocations of St Julitta ... and they are covered in blotchy russet stains.
    In 2021 a team of bioarchaeologists investigated the marks. 
They found residues of honey, broad beans and sheep or goats's milk
 – all used in obstetric medicine – 
as well as proteins associated with human cervico-vaginal fluid. 
...That it was used and preserved suggests it was thought to work,

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