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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
URL
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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).