Extracts in prose and verse from an old English medical manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library at Stockholm / Communicated by George Stephens, through Sir Henry Ellis.

  • George Stephens
Date:
[1844]
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Credit: Extracts in prose and verse from an old English medical manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library at Stockholm / Communicated by George Stephens, through Sir Henry Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Swynys Grees. but. Centenodium. Swythe. Quickly, straightway. (A. S. SwiDe, strongly.) Syde. Far, great, much. (A. S. Side.) Syil. but. Pillium. Synchon. but. Sonchus. Ta. for Take. (So Swed. Ta’ for Taga.) Talow. Suet, fat. (Swed. Talg.) Tane. To take. (A. S. Teon.) Tanwort: bot. Wild borage. Tauke. but. Daucus asininus. Tendron. Leaf-stalk through the centre of a leaf. (French Tendron, a sprig.) Teterwort. bot. Celidony. Tharst, Thart. Thouneedest. (A. jS'.Dearft.) Thenkyn. To perceive, see. Thenne. Thin. Thiretelle. bot. Apium risus. Thonwong. Temple (of the head). (A. S. Dun-wang .) Thor we. Through. Thre Lewyd Gres. Honeysuckle. Thresse. ? “it kepyth hy fro t. & fro wykked sprj'tys.” P. 85. Threst. Thirst. Throwe. Space, moment. (A. S. Jjrag.) Thryddundell. Third-deal, third part. Thrye. Thrice. Thykwed. Spa minor. Thryll. To bore through, pierce a hole (A. S. }>irlian.) Tirdillis. Little turds. To. Two. To Brestyn. Break, burst. Torenyth. ? “ and alle man<?r helth it gewyth yt & w‘ inne mayns body.” P. 1. Totsane. bot. Agnus castris. Tottard. bot. Nascorium. Towe. Tough. Treen. Wooden. Tremorse. bot. Trete. A plaister, salve. Trwnchonys. Truncheons, horse-worms. Trwnfown. Mistake for Trunchon. ? L. 1169. Trye. True, tried. Tuell, Tuwell. Pipe, reed, funnel; penis. (Lat. Tubellus, a little tube.) Tunhoo, Tunhowe. bot. Twell. Twelve. Tweyanglys. A kind of worms. Twye. Twice. Tyll Ston. A tile. (Swed. Tegel-sten.) Tymes. Hours. Vanyte. ? “ for v. i ye hed.” P. 32. Vecyse. Vesica, bladder. Vermys. Worms. Vertesaws. ? “ grynde hem in a morter as small as v.” P. 131. Vertyne. ? “ alle euelys y* is callyd v.” P. 29. Verye. Truth, verity. Vetonye. bot. Betony. Veyden. Voideth. Vluekecche. An imposthume in the milt. Vnche. Inch. Vndern. Lunch-time, 9 o’clock. (A. S. Undern.) Vndir All. In all, altogether. Vormys. Worms. Walwort. bot. Filipendula. Wange. See Wong. Wappe. Wrap. Warence. “ w. [&] mad^p al is on.” P. 21. Warche, Warysche. To heal, cure. (French Guerir.) Water Lyngke. bot. Fabria minor. Welle. To boil, bubble. (A. S. Willan.) Went. Turned, soured.