Medieval Herbal Remedies

The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine

• Author(s): Anne Van Arsdall,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 350
• ISBN_10: 1136613889
  ISBN_13: 9781136613883
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Medieval , Literary Criticism / General , Medical / Pharmacology ,

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.