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Trotula is a very well-known 12 th century text, originally written for male medical practitioners treating gynecological or obstetrical issues, which reveals a great deal about how people perceived sickness, health, and the circle of life during the medieval era. The modern perception of medieval medicine is generally that it was crude and barbaric, and there was very little or no knowledge of “real” medical science at all in the Middle Ages. But, to what extent is this actually true? If we take a closer look at medieval medicine, we can see that while some of the ideas about illness...

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NORVEL. By Kenneth Conklin. Self published. 359 pages. $26.99. Norvel Lee, a big man with a big heart, came out of the hills of northern Botetourt County to win a boxing match at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, and a landmark desegregation case before the State Supreme Court. Kenneth Conklin, a retired technology writer, also from Botetourt, tells Lee’s story in a fictional version of many events in the life of a man who proudly carried his African American heritage from a farm on Mill Creek near Gala to Howard University, the Army Air Corps, international boxing circles and civi...

Reviewed by Michael L. Ramsey Ramsey is president emeritus of the Roanoke Public Library Foundation. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet The Spy. By Leslie Brody. Seal Press. 335 pages. $30. If you were a teenage girl in the 1960s (and the following decades), it is likely that you read “Harriet the Spy,” a novel about a cheeky girl who embodied the spirit of female liberation that had been planted by women such as Betty Freidan and other societal trailblazers. It was a coming-out novel for a generation of girls who...

Hippocrates says. do no harm. >> right. >> and you take a pill -- it's amazing the side effects they list on a commercial. >> oh, my. >> if you listen to the side effects you wouldn't want to take the medicine. >> it sounds like what you had originally was the side effects it causes. so you are saying that you could go into your pantry. and there are many things you could try. not everything will work for everybody. i get it. you said something crazy, yeah, i understood. that animals go for food as antibiotics. i remember may cats eating grass to throw up when they didn't feel good. >> everybo...