A leechbook or collection of medical recipes of the fifteenth century : the text of ms. no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a transcript into modern spelling / transcribed and edited with an introduction, notes and appendix by Warren R. Dawson.

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A leechbook or collection of medical recipes of the fifteenth century : the text of ms. no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a transcript into modern spelling / transcribed and edited with an introduction, notes and appendix by Warren R. Dawson.