In the modern day, nutrition and pharmacology are seen as very different subjects.The medicine we take is separate and distinct from the food we eat. In the past this line was much more blurred. A doctor would prescribe almonds, garlic, bacon, turnips and cheese to their patient. A sick person would self-dose with the plants that grew in their garden or rub butter or milk on their skin to treat a rash.
Friends, neighbours, church ministers and philanthropic members of the landed gentry shared medical recipes and ingredients with people in their communities, and medical traditions were passed down from mother to daughter through
