Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conditions for health and disease
- 3 Physician and patient
- 4 The earliest notices of Anglo-Saxon medical practice
- 5 Medical texts of the Anglo-Saxons
- 6 Compilations in Old English
- 7 Compilations in Latin
- 8 Latin works translated into Old English: Herbarium and Peri Didaxeon
- 9 Sources for Old English texts
- 10 Making a Leechbook
- 11 Materia medica
- 12 Rational medicine
- 13 Magical medicine
- 14 The humours and bloodletting
- 15 Surgery
- 16 Gynaecology and obstetrics
- 17 Conclusions
- Appendix 1 Quotations for ch. 10
- Appendix 2 Quotations for ch. 13
- Appendix 3 Quotations for ch. 14
- Appendix 4 Quotation for ch. 15
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conditions for health and disease
- 3 Physician and patient
- 4 The earliest notices of Anglo-Saxon medical practice
- 5 Medical texts of the Anglo-Saxons
- 6 Compilations in Old English
- 7 Compilations in Latin
- 8 Latin works translated into Old English: Herbarium and Peri Didaxeon
- 9 Sources for Old English texts
- 10 Making a Leechbook
- 11 Materia medica
- 12 Rational medicine
- 13 Magical medicine
- 14 The humours and bloodletting
- 15 Surgery
- 16 Gynaecology and obstetrics
- 17 Conclusions
- Appendix 1 Quotations for ch. 10
- Appendix 2 Quotations for ch. 13
- Appendix 3 Quotations for ch. 14
- Appendix 4 Quotation for ch. 15
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Anglo-Saxon Medicine , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993