Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine - Softcover

Van Arsdall, Anne

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9780415884037: Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine

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This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.

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Van Arsdall, Anne

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ISBN 10:  041593849X ISBN 13:  9780415938495
Publisher: Routledge, 2002
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