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A case study of Plantago in the treatment of infected wounds in the middle English translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae
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Connelly, Erin (2018) A case study of Plantago in the treatment of infected wounds in the middle English translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae. In: Connelly, Erin and Künzel, Stefanie, (eds.) New Approaches to Disease, Disability and Medicine in Medieval Europe. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, pp. 126-140. ISBN 9781784918835
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1nzfw4t.13
Abstract
In his Certaine Workes of Chirurgerie, Thomas Gale (a 16th-century barber-surgeon connected with the provenance¹ of the Middle English translation of the Lilium medicinae) related a personal case study of a child with ‘sore eyes’. The text states that many medicines and treatments were applied, which only ‘brought the eyes to worse’. Eventually, the physicians gave up hope, and the child was ‘lefte to the worke of nature’. However, the child’s mother found a recipe in ‘an olde boke’ for Gale to prepare, which restored the child’s eyes to ‘perfecte helth and sight’.² Although Gale’s account is several centuries old,...
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||
Publisher: | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd | ||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford | ||||
ISBN: | 9781784918835 | ||||
Book Title: | New Approaches to Disease, Disability and Medicine in Medieval Europe | ||||
Editor: | Connelly, Erin and Künzel, Stefanie | ||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 151 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 126-140 | ||||
DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv1nzfw4t.13 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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