The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England : a study in history, psychology, and folklore / [Wilfrid Bonser].

  • Wilfrid Bonser
Date:
1963
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Credit: The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England : a study in history, psychology, and folklore / [Wilfrid Bonser]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Benedict, St., Rule of (as source), 23-24: (diet in monasteries), 354- 5; (sick brethren), 97. Benedict Biscop, abbot of Wearmouth, So, 113, 304, 415. Beorthor [foetus], beorthor-cwelm [mis carriage], beorthor-thinon [midwife], 264. Berecynthia, 435. Berkeley, Gios. (witch of), 151-2. Bethwegen (cured of paralysis), 414. Betony, 313. Beverley, Yorks, (frith stool), 137; (hospital of St. Giles), 96. John of, see John, St. Bezoar stone, 307. Bidford-on-Avon, Warw. (cemetery), 31-32, 134, 387. Bile ( ealla, gealla), 397. Black dog, 130, 332. Blseco [? leprosy], 221, 238-9, 376. Blefed, 64 et seq. Blegen [blister], 377. Bleo-fah [parti-coioured], 220. Blindness. See Eye. Blod-lasszvu [blood-letting], 294. Blod-seax [lancet], 97. Blood, 219-20, 248. Blood-letting, 294-9. ‘Bloody flux’ in Ireland, 85. Bldtmonad [November], 140. Body (magic of the), 221-2. Bolgach, 66-67, 83 ) 85, 93. Borgo Saxonum, Rome, 97. Boris and Glyeb, SS., 198. Bothelm (cured by St. Wilfrid), 100; (cured by moss from Oswald’s cross), 183. Botolph, St., 132. Braec [catarrh], 12. Broadchalke, Wilts, (cemetery), 30, 389-90. Buidhe chonnail, 65 et seq., 81. Bums, 380. Burwell, Cambs. (cemetery), 32. Bfl [carbuncle], 377. Byrhtferth, Handboc of, 36, 54. Calendar customs, 140-5. Camerton, Somerset (? pestilence at), 83; (cemetery: amputation), 107-8. Camp-sickness, 90. Cancer-adl [ulcer], 380. Canterbury (church of St. Pancras), 122; (pestilence at Christ Church), 80. Carbuncle, 422. Cassiodorus, 171. Cassius, St. (patron of venisection), 296. Cattle, 423-6. Cauterization, 303. Cedd, St., bp. of the East Saxons, (death of), 77; (exorcizes devils), 132; (transfer of body), 206. Cellarer, 97. Ceolfrid, abbot of Jarrozc and Wear- mouth, 396. Ceolnoth, abp. of Canterbury, 414. Ceredigion (pestilence in, c. 526), 64. Cerne Abbas, Dorset, 125-6. Chad, St., bp. of Lichfield (death of), 77; (relics and cures by them), 189- go, 260; (well of, at Lichfield), 139. Chambers (R. W.), 19. Chaucer (Geoffrey), 37. Chervil, 339. Chest, 394-6. Chilblain ( secelma), 301. Childbirth, 264-70. Circle of St. Columcille, 157, 430. Circle of Petosiris, 157, 289. Circul-adl [shingles, or ringworm], 378 . Clamtrusceadh, 66. Clovesho (Council of, 747), 152, 363. Cluithe an righ [‘The King’s Game’], 276. Clfda [poultice], 302. Cnut, king (laws), 129. Coelbigk, Anhalt, 144. Coenberg, nun at Wetadun, 175. Coifi, high-priest of Deira, 124. Colon ( ropp ), 398. Colour, 216-20, 280-1. Columba, Columcille, St., 56, 65, 245, 259, 264, 386, 425-6, 437; (Circle of), 157, 430. Comets, 54-55, 89. Constantinople (relics at), 180. Comely, St., 425. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Penitentials in MS. C.C.C.C. 190), 22-23. CoSu [pain], 11. Cough ( hwosta ), 395. Cowries, 233-4, 266. Crseft, 293. Cron-chonaill, 65 et seq. Cross (sign of), 224. Cross-roads, 129, 249, 423. Cupping, 303. Cuthbert, St., bp. of Lindisfarne (body of), 194-5, 200-1, 207, 210; (cures by, in person), 5, 174; (cures by his relics), 176,188-9,385—6,414; (cures by his shoes), 189; (exorcizes devils at Fame), 132; (health of), 112-13, 369-70, 405; (nails and hair cut), 202; (pestilence and), 73-74, 82.