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Hunt, Tony (ed.), Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-Century England, introduction and texts by —, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 1990, xi + 466 pp.

Resum

The first study of Anglo-Norman medical prescriptions to appear in print. Six major collections, comprising over 1000 receipts, are analysed and edited. A historical introduction provides the richest and most up-to-date account of popular medicine in the period 1100-1300 yet published. Full botanical glossaries are provided. -- Tony Hunt is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.

Contents:
* 1. Introduction -- History of the medical receipt -- Form and contents of the medical receipt -- The medical receipt in medieval England -- Published receipts in Middle England -- The preparation of compound medicines -- Collection of herbs -- Weights and measures -- Archaeological evidence
* 2. Miscellaneous receipts and charms -- Receipts -- Charms
* 3. The 'Lettre d'Hippocrate' -- The text of MS B.L. Harley 978 -- The Latin text of MS B.L. Royal 12 B XIII -- Appendix: receipts in MS B.L. Sloane 3550
* 4. Versified receipts (Physique Rimée) -- Appendix: Receipts in MS Cambridge St. John's College D.4 -- Cosmetic receipts in MS Trinity College 0.1.20
* 5. An Anglo-Irish receipt collection
* 6. The collection of medical receipts in MS London B.L. Sloane 146
* 7. Prose and verse receipts in MS London B.L. Sloane 3550
* 8. The collection of medical receipts in MS Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 69
* 9. Medical receipts and the Antidotarium

Matèries

Medicina - Farmacologia
Història natural - Vegetals
Francès

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