Medical Mondays: Curing a Bloody Nose in the Medieval Ages

Dear readers, I cannot argue against alternative medical practitioners any longer. I am now joining the ranks of traditional healing with this tip from the middle ages.

Should you find yourself afflicted, gentle readers, with blood pouring from your nose, the best hemostatic substance you can use is cranial moss, the moss that grows on the skulls of hanged corpses or probably any skull that has been exposed to the elements long enough to grow moss.

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