Author: Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136613889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
Medieval Herbal Remedies
Author: Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136613889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136613889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
Medieval Herbals
Author: Minta Collins
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802083135
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Collins shows how the principal herbal traditions of Classical descent were replaced by a new observation of nature that itself paved the way for the magnificent paintings of later French and Italian herbals.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802083135
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Collins shows how the principal herbal traditions of Classical descent were replaced by a new observation of nature that itself paved the way for the magnificent paintings of later French and Italian herbals.
The Gallows Curse
Author: Karen Maitland
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141956887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the sins of the lord of the manor. As the terrors that soon begin to plague Elena's sleep grow darker, in desperation she visits the cunning woman, who has been waiting for just such an opportunity to fulfil an ancient curse conjured at the gallows. Elena, haunted by this curse and threatened with death for a crime she didn't commit, flees the village ... only to find her nightmare has barely begun. For treachery lurks in every shadow as King John's brutal reign makes enemies of brothers, murderers of virgins and sinners of us all.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141956887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the sins of the lord of the manor. As the terrors that soon begin to plague Elena's sleep grow darker, in desperation she visits the cunning woman, who has been waiting for just such an opportunity to fulfil an ancient curse conjured at the gallows. Elena, haunted by this curse and threatened with death for a crime she didn't commit, flees the village ... only to find her nightmare has barely begun. For treachery lurks in every shadow as King John's brutal reign makes enemies of brothers, murderers of virgins and sinners of us all.
Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden
Author: Peter Dendle
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843833635
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This title looks at the important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and thought, both in the Latin Western medical tradition and in Byzantine and medieval Arabic medicine.
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843833635
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This title looks at the important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and thought, both in the Latin Western medical tradition and in Byzantine and medieval Arabic medicine.
Medicine in the Middle Ages
Author: Ian Dawson
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN: 9781592700370
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Learn about how medicine was practiced long ago.
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN: 9781592700370
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Learn about how medicine was practiced long ago.
Dr. Medieval
Author: Laura Layton Strom
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780531177655
Category : Medicine, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Check it out! Shocker facts, word stunners, and bite-sized bits of seriously strange information shake up reading interest in the Shockwave - the exciting new series that serves up the world's most extreme science and history for readers to discover.
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780531177655
Category : Medicine, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Check it out! Shocker facts, word stunners, and bite-sized bits of seriously strange information shake up reading interest in the Shockwave - the exciting new series that serves up the world's most extreme science and history for readers to discover.
De Materia Medica
Author: Pedanius Dioscorides
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783487147192
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783487147192
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Exploring the Middle Ages
Author:
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761476139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive, illustrated reference of the period in world history known as the Middle Ages, encompassing both the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761476139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive, illustrated reference of the period in world history known as the Middle Ages, encompassing both the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
Medical Herbalism
Author: David Hoffmann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594778906
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 1833
Book Description
A foundational textbook on the scientific principles of therapeutic herbalism and their application in medicine • A complete handbook for the medical practitioner • Includes the most up-to-date information on preparations, dosage, and contraindications • By the author of The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal Medical Herbalism contains comprehensive information concerning the identification and use of medicinal plants by chemical structure and physiological effect, the art and science of making herbal medicine, the limitations and potential of viewing herbs chemically, and the challenge to current research paradigms posed by complex plant medicines. It also includes information on toxicology and contraindications, the issues involved in determining dosage and formulation types for an individual, guides to the different measurement systems and conversion tables, and the pros and cons of both industrial and traditional techniques. With additional sections devoted to the principles of green medicine, the history of Western Herbalism, the variety of other medical modalities using medicinal plants, an extensive resource directory, and a discussion of treatments organized by body system, Medical Herbalism is the comprehensive textbook all students and practitioners of clinical herbalism need to develop their healing practices.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594778906
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 1833
Book Description
A foundational textbook on the scientific principles of therapeutic herbalism and their application in medicine • A complete handbook for the medical practitioner • Includes the most up-to-date information on preparations, dosage, and contraindications • By the author of The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal Medical Herbalism contains comprehensive information concerning the identification and use of medicinal plants by chemical structure and physiological effect, the art and science of making herbal medicine, the limitations and potential of viewing herbs chemically, and the challenge to current research paradigms posed by complex plant medicines. It also includes information on toxicology and contraindications, the issues involved in determining dosage and formulation types for an individual, guides to the different measurement systems and conversion tables, and the pros and cons of both industrial and traditional techniques. With additional sections devoted to the principles of green medicine, the history of Western Herbalism, the variety of other medical modalities using medicinal plants, an extensive resource directory, and a discussion of treatments organized by body system, Medical Herbalism is the comprehensive textbook all students and practitioners of clinical herbalism need to develop their healing practices.
Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages
Author: Daniel Wakelin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851244768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For a zitty face.Take urine eight days old and heat it over the fire; wash your face with it morning and night.In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some were sensible herbal cures, many were weird and wonderful. This book selects some of the most revolting or remarkable remedies from medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.There are embarrassing ailments and painful procedures, icky ingredients and bizarre beliefs. The would-be doctors seem oblivious to pain, and any animal, vegetable or mineral, let alone bodily fluid, can be ground up, smeared on or inserted for medical benefit. Similar ingredients are used in 'recipes' for how to make yourself invisible, how to make a woman love you, how to stop dogs from barking at you and how to make freckles disappear.Written in the down-to-earth speech of the time, these remedies often blur the distinction between medicine and magic. They also give a humorous insight into the strange ideas, ingenuity and bravery of men and women in the Middle Ages, and a glimpse of the often gruesome history of medicine through time.The remedies have been collected and transcribed from fifteenth-century manuscripts by students at the University of Oxford. Modern English translations, for easier reading, are given alongside the original Middle English.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851244768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For a zitty face.Take urine eight days old and heat it over the fire; wash your face with it morning and night.In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some were sensible herbal cures, many were weird and wonderful. This book selects some of the most revolting or remarkable remedies from medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.There are embarrassing ailments and painful procedures, icky ingredients and bizarre beliefs. The would-be doctors seem oblivious to pain, and any animal, vegetable or mineral, let alone bodily fluid, can be ground up, smeared on or inserted for medical benefit. Similar ingredients are used in 'recipes' for how to make yourself invisible, how to make a woman love you, how to stop dogs from barking at you and how to make freckles disappear.Written in the down-to-earth speech of the time, these remedies often blur the distinction between medicine and magic. They also give a humorous insight into the strange ideas, ingenuity and bravery of men and women in the Middle Ages, and a glimpse of the often gruesome history of medicine through time.The remedies have been collected and transcribed from fifteenth-century manuscripts by students at the University of Oxford. Modern English translations, for easier reading, are given alongside the original Middle English.