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Historians recently unearthed some "health hacks" dating back to the Middle Ages v and some sound like they came straight off TikTok.

The database, called the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, offers a wealth of information about how people in the so-called "Dark Ages" viewed health, science and medicine. It was announced by Binghamton University in July.

Meg Leja, an associate professor at the university, told Fox News Digital that she helped catalog hundreds of medieval medical texts , particularly focusing on all surviving Latin manuscripts up to the year 1000.

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