A comprehensive and detailed examination of every aspect of the early
English approach to illness and healing, including a full list of the
plants used and the properties they contain. Other themes include
witchcraft, magic and paganism and appendices present healing theories,
amulets, causes of disease, charms, dreams, omens and tree-lore. Three
key Old English texts are reproduced in full, accompanied by new
translations: Bald's Third Leechbook, the Lacnunga Manuscript, and 'The
Old English Herbarium' Manuscript 5. This is a fascinating work of
reference, packed full of information and interesting details.