Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: A Collection of Documents, For the most part never before printed, Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest by Thomas Oswald Cockayne

Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: A Collection of Documents, For the most part never before printed, Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest

Thomas Oswald Cockayne

1461 pages • first pub 1961 (view editions)

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Volume 1 of Leechdoms contains the Herbarium of Apuleius which lists the various ills and the corresponding plant remedies (i.e. the worts) for each illness, e.g. bishopswort, 'in case a man have a mind not to be drunken', and for 'monstrous noctu...

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