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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    Ring-finger, 223-4. Ringworm, 378. Ripon, Yorks, (cures at), 190. Ruith fola, 85. Robert, the Pious, king of France, 271, 274 (n- s). Roche Court Down, Wilts, (cemetery), 388. Roger, of Hoveden (as source), 18. Rome, Borgo Saxonum, 97. Roof, 248. Ropp [colon], 398. Runes, 149-50. Running water, 238. St. Albans, Herts, (cures at), 190. Sale (of disease), 241. Salerno, 47. Salomon and Saturn, 120. Samthrosc, 66-67. Sar [soreness], 12. Scamach, 85. Scarfe [black dog], 130. Seiner seft [magic], 147. Scitta, 90. Scarf [scurf], 380. Scorpions, 285 (n. 7). Scrofell [scrofula], 274. Scucca, 130. Sealf [ointment], 302. Seidr [divination], 154. Selsey, Sussex (pestilence at), 79. Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, 166, 226, 403 (n. 2), 413. Sex (in plants), 325-7. Sheep, 426-7. Shrewsbury (almshouse?), 96. Shuck [black dog], 130. Sideware ( = zedoary), 45, 164. Sigfrid, abbot of Wearmouth, 113. Silence, 229. Simeon, of Durham (as source), 18. Sisu [songs for the dead], 135. Sitja uti [divination], 135. Sixtus, St. (relics of), 180. Skin diseases, 369-80. Skins (of animals), 151 (n.); (of calf), 375; (of cattle), 141; (of fawn), 165, 233; (of porpoise), 259; (of stag), 152. Slxp-drssnc [sleeping-draught], 413. Slanoll, king of Tara, 197. Smallpox, 66-67, 69-70, 81, 83, 85, 93 . 372, 377. Smea-wyrm, 278. Smeru [grease], 302. Smiths, 345. Snakes (plague of, in Sussex), 282. Snid-isen [lancet], 97. Snorre Gode (Snorre the Priest), 101-2. Sol-mónad [February], 142. Spelc [splint], 104. Spell, 146. Spiders, 285. Spittle, 221-2. Spiw-drenc [emetic], 302. Spleen ( milte ), 400. Splint {spelc), 104. Spring [carbuncle], 377. Stacung, 149. Steam-baths, 299-301. Stice, 56, 160, 343. Stiklestad (battle of, 1030), 100-1. Stillborn child, 269. Stithe, 337-8. Stockbridge Down, Hants (cemetery), 31, 388. Stone (in the bladder), 400-1. Stone-bath, 300. Stones (holed), 240; (precious, as healing agents), 342-4. Stune, 337. Suht [‘disease’], 12. Svipdag, 135. Swallows’ nests (as remedy), 344. Sweat, 222. Sweor-cópu [quinsy?], 392-3. Swine, 349-50, 427. Swinglung [vertigo], 381-2. Swithun, St., bp. of Winchester, 190, 205-7. Sympathetic magic, 250-4. Synovia ( lipule ), 401. Syringe ( gespét ), 381. Taboos, 228-30, 321-4. Tan [lot], 153. Tar (as remedy for itch), 375, 379. Teeth, toothache, 244-5, 279, 387-92. Tegla, St. (well, Denbighshire), 241. Tetanus, 393. Teter [skin disease], 379. Thearm [intestine], 397. Theobrotion [Persian remedy], 307. Theodore, abp. of Canterbury (Peni tential of, as source), 21. Theór-ddl, 409-11. Theóte [channel], 10. Theriac, 286. Thor, 127-8. Thorhallr, 133. Thrimilchi [May], 141. Thrust-fell [? leprosy], 371. Thyrs [spectre], 130. Thucydides (on plague of Athens), 53. Toothache, see Teeth. Tortgith, nun at Barking, 78. Transference (cures by), 237-41.