Medicine in ancient Erin : an historical sketch from Celtic to Mediaeval times.

  • Henry Solomon Wellcome
Date:
1909
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medicine in ancient Erin : an historical sketch from Celtic to Mediaeval times. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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    p .•■( ' '^S'm>-i wi=l«n<>cnriTi ii«^ic5n*|-iivWi ials ! •mMiw'-^^si wT**?^ P H LEBOTOM ICAL ChART Or diagram in form of a man, showing veins which may be opened. At the end of each line is a short description of the particular vein, with its virtues, beginning as follows: [Letting of] the vein in the tip of the nose helpeth the memory and disease of the brain and prevents effusion of rheum. From an Irish MS., a.d. 1563