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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    Cynelic ddl [King’s Evil], 271-6. Cynifrid, 98-99, 192. Cyrnei [glandular swelling], 379. Dadsisas [songs for the dead], 135. Dancing [heathen], 144. Dead (cult of), 134-6, 248; (‘walking’), J 34 - Deaw-wyrm [ringworm], 277. Dedfol-seocnes [mental disease], 257- 63. Devil in milk-pail, story of, 259. Devil on lettuce, story of, 259. Devil-possession, 257-63. Diancecht , physician of the Tuatha De Danaan, 306. Dies /Egyptiaci, 296-7. Diet, 351-6. Digestion, 397-400. Diminishing charms, 252-3. Dioscorides, 38. Disman, 46. Diuretics, 400-1. Divination, 152-6. Dohldrenc [wound-drink], 104. Drangey, Iceland, 133. Drif [fever], 93, 403. Drinks, 358-62. Dropa [rheum], 407-8. Dropsy ( waeter-adl ), 408-9, 439. Drunkenness, 362—4. Drf [sorcerer], drfcreeft, 147. Dun [physician], 6. Durham, Cathedral Library (MS. Hunter too), 25-26, 35-37, 303. Durham, monastery (relics at), 207. Dwarf elder, 323. Dysentery ( litsiht ), 409. Eadbald, king of Kent, 259-60. Eadberga, St., nun at Winchester, 196. Eadred, king, no. Ealla [bile], 397. Ear, 386-7. Earconwald, St., bp. of London, 404. Earth, 249, 279-80, 431-40; (invoca tions to), 431-2, 439-4°- Eästre, 143, 166. Ebbesbourne Wake, Wilts, (cemetery), 3 °- Ece [pain], 11. Ecga (cured of insanity by Guthlac), 261. Eclipse, 72, 75. Edgar, the Peaceful, king, 196. Edith, St., queen to Edward the Con fessor, 272. Edmund, St., king of E. Anglia, 193-4. Edward, the Confessor, king (? an albino), in; (cures by), 176, 272-4, 373 . 386, 394, 406; (Lives, as sources), 16-18; (preservation of his body), 197. Edward, the Martyr, king, 192, 197. Edwold, St., hermit of Cerne, 126. Eirik , jarl, 100. Elafius (chief, cure of his son), 174. Elder [tree], 138. Elferius, ealdorman, 370. Elfred Weston, 202, 207-8. Elf-shot, elves, 56, 158-64. Elias III, patriarch of Jerusalem, 44, 3 °L 343 - Eligius, St., bp. of Noyon, 137. Ellesborough, Bucks, (burial), 32. Elorn, Breton chief, 436. Elsin, abbot of Peterborough, 208. Emetics, 302, 410. Eorminburh, queen to Ecgfriih, 112. Ephesus (Ephesian letters), 236. See also under Seven Sleepers. Epilepsy, 257, 346, 415. Erce, 432. Erysipelas ( oman, ban-coSa), 379-80. Etheldreda, St., abbess of Ely, 78, 98-99, 192-3, 201, 260-1, 369, 386, 394 - Exorcism, 172. Eye, 382-6. Fairford, Glos., 134. Fasting, 229. Fawn’s skin (nasse), 165, 233. Felgild, anchorite on Farne, 375. Felix, of Croyland (as source), 16. Fennel, 339, 395. Festivals (pagan), 140-5. Fever ( fefer, drif), 93, 403-5. Fiachaidh Muilleathan, king of Mun ster, 275. Fic-ddl [haemorrhoids], 278-9, 411- 12. Fifel, 130. Finland, Finnish magic, 146, 150, I 5 S. 159-61, 3 °°-i, 34 °- Finnian, St. (died of buidhe conaill), 70. Fire (worship of), 139-40. Fishes, 354. Fleas, 82, 370. Flixton, Yorks, (hospital at), 96. Florence, of Worcester (as source), 18. Flores historiarum (as source), 19. Foetus (formation of), 265. Food, 349-65. Fot-ddl [gout], 405-7. Four, 216, 434.