English medicine in the Anglo-Saxon times : two lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, June 23 and 25, 1903 / by Joseph Frank Payne ; with twenty-three illustrations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Payne, Joseph Frank, 1840-1910.

Contributor:

Royal College of Physicians of London.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Fitzpatrick lectures. 1903.

Fitzpatrick lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anglo-Saxons--Medicine.

Anglo-Saxons.

Medicine--Great Britain--History.

Medicine.

Great Britain.

History.

History, Medieval.

England.

Medical Subjects:

History, Medieval.

England.

Physical Description:

vi, 162 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

At head of title: Fitz-Patrick Lectures for 1903

Place of Publication:

Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1904.

Contents:

Lecture I. Part. I. Introduction. The History of Medicine

II. History of Anglo-Saxon medicine. Historical references. The Venerable Bede. The Death, burial, and reinterment of Saint Aedilthryd

III. The Anglo-Saxon medical literature. The Leech book of Bald. Summary

IV. The 'Herbarium' of Apuleius. Ravens' Leek (a species of Orchis). Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris). Brownwort (Ceterach officinarum). Yarrow (Achillea millefolium). Mandragora (Mandrake. Atropa mandragora). The figures of herbs. English names of herbs.

Lecture II. Pt. I. Anglo-Saxon surgery

II. Charms and superstitious medicine. Anglo-Saxon charms ...

III. The Treatise ... ["of teachings" / "'of medical doctrines' or 'schools of medicine'"]. Comparison of the Salernitan 'Practica' with the Saxon Leech book. Last period of Anglo-Saxon medicine. Healing by the Royal Touch. Conclusion.

Cited in:

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.) 6535

OCLC:

4054330