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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    Ingemund, 155. Ingulf, abbot of Croyland (as source), 19. Innelfa [bowels], 398. Insomnia, 412-13. Institutes of Polity (MS. Bodley Junius 121, quoted), 4. Irish chronicles (as sources), 20. Iron, 229, 345 - Isidore, bp. of Seville, 40-41, 56. Itch ( gicSa, gihSa), 378. Jarrow, County Durham (pestilence at), 80. Jaundice, 219-20, 274, 397. John, St., of Beverley, abp. of York, 99 , 175 , 199 , 297, 375, 426. John, of Gaddesden, 219, 294. Joints, 401. Jordan-Segen, 242-3. Juliana Anicia Codex, 311, 330. Justinian (plague of), 54. Kahina Root, 332—3. Kingsbury (Council of, 851), 413. King’s Evil, 271-6. Klosterneuburg incantation, 247-8. Lxca [physician], 12. Lseca-feo [physician’s fee], 12, 107. Lsece-finger, 223-4. Lsece-hus [hospital], 12, 95. Lsece-seax [surgeon’s knife], 98. Lsece-wyrt [herb with medicinal value], 3 ° 6 . Lsel [bruise], 380. Lambscress, 337. Lastingham, Yorks, (devils exorcized at), 132; (pestilence at), 77. Lazarus, 372. Lear, king of Britain (burial under running water), 192 (n. 2). Leda (and egg at Sparta), 179. Left hand, 223-4. Leger [a lying = ‘disease’], iz. Lencten-adl [malaria], 184, 404. Leofstan, abbot of Bury, 194, 415. Leonard, St., 119 (n.), 374 (n. 3); (hospital at York), 95. Leprosy, 371-4. Lie, lic-hama [body], 11. Lice, 370-1. Lic-wigelung [necromancy], 134. Ligatura, 231. Lignamine (Philip de), printer, 312, 32 9- . , . Lindisfarne (monastery hospital ?), 95. Lipule [synovia], 401. Liver, 396-7; (as treatment for night blindness], 384-5. Lond-adl [ = ?], 227. London (Council of, 1075), 423. Longinus-Segen, 243-4. Long Wittenham, Berks, (cemetery), 29-30. 389 - Looking behind, 228. Lorica of Gildas, 26, 72, 246-8. — of Loding, 247. — of St. Patrick, 158, 247. Lorichot, 425. Lorscher Bienensegen, 429-30. Love-potions, 149, 333. Luminous plants, 327-8. Lungen-ddl [lung disease], 395; (in cattle), 423-4. Lybb [drug], lybcrxft [magic], 147, 3 ° 3 - Lyft-adl [‘paralysis’], 218, 416. Lyrshaw-heath, Schleswig (battle of), 101. Maahiset [Finnish elves], 159. Maelgarbh [murrain], 89. Maelgwn Gwynedd, 65, 70-71. Maga [stomach], 278, 397. Magic (defined by Pliny), 7. Magnus I, the Good, king of Norway, 101. Malaria ( lencten-adl ), 184, 404. Male child (magic to secure), 265-6. Malmesbury, William of (as source), 18. Malscra [bewitching], malscrung, 147. Mandrake, mandragora, 250, 322, 326-33, 412-13. Manny, abbot of Evesham, 415. Manuscripts (Anglo-Saxon medical), 24-26. Marcellus Empiricus, 39-40. Maythe [herb], 338-9. Mead, 361. Medea, 325. Megrim, 381. Meigle, Perthshire (stone at), 325 (n. 7). Mellitus, abbot, bp. of London, abp. of Canterbury, 405. Meltung [digestion], 398. Men-an-tol, Cornwall, 240. Menses (monap-gecynd), 417. Mental disease, 257-63. Metals (used in remedies), 344-6. Mid-hridere [omentum?], 398. Midsummer (herb-gathering at), 318- 19. Milburga, St., abbess of Wenlock, 199, 272. Millet ( herse ), 432. Milte [spleen], 400. Mineral remedies, 342-6.