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Medical Recipes, from Bald's 'Leech-book'
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This manuscript contains fragments of several
separate books. This page comes from a chapter of a 'laeceboc',
that is, a leech-book ('leech' is an old-fashioned word for a
physician). The leech-book contained mainly charms, some of them
poetic, and recipes for treating ailments afflicting humans and
livestock, such as lice, boils, stomach-ache. The book's sources
include ancient medical texts passed on from Roman times, some via
Arabian sources--Arab traders apparently were key suppliers of
ingredients--as well as native herbal and magical traditions. The
style of its handwriting suggests that it could have been written
either at York or Worcester, but it was at Worcester later in the
middle ages.
Title: Medical Recipes, from Bald's 'Leech-book'
Description:
This manuscript contains fragments of several
separate books.
This page comes from a chapter of a 'laeceboc',
that is, a leech-book ('leech' is an old-fashioned word for a
physician).
The leech-book contained mainly charms, some of them
poetic, and recipes for treating ailments afflicting humans and
livestock, such as lice, boils, stomach-ache.
The book's sources
include ancient medical texts passed on from Roman times, some via
Arabian sources--Arab traders apparently were key suppliers of
ingredients--as well as native herbal and magical traditions.
The
style of its handwriting suggests that it could have been written
either at York or Worcester, but it was at Worcester later in the
middle ages.
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