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Helen Murray Taylor shares how a mental health breakdown led to her being sectioned

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LEECHES and baked owl might not be the first remedies we reach for when feeling poorly, but in the Middle Ages, that was just what the doctor ordered. Medieval medicine was a mix of magic, myth and cu