English Medicine in the Anglo Saxon Times Two Lectures Delivered Before the Roy

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English Medicine in the Anglo Saxon Times Two Lectures Delivered Before the Roy
Joseph Frank Payne
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The whole constitutes, according to our ideas, a very poor book of natural history. In the sections on plants there is, strictly speaking, no botany, and the therapeutical part belongs to the lowest period of Koman medicine. The zoology is contemptible.
Nevertheless, the Anglo-Saxon scholars showed their intelligence and good sense in making this poor book their own. Desiring to improve their knowledge of natural history in relation to medicine, they took the best work on the subject they could
... find in Europe, translated it into the vernacular tongue for general use, carefully copied the pictures by which the plants were to be identified, and whenever it was possible replaced the Latin names by their English equivalents.
Before speaking of the figures, which constitute a very important part of these MSS. , it will be well to give some specimens of the text.
RAVENS' LEEK (A SPECIES or OBCHIS).
'i. This wort, which is called

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