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To: 2ndDivisionVet
(Modern) English version here:

Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest by Cockayne, Thomas Oswald

This book has the original text and the modern English translation side-by-side. The two PDF versions work fine. One is color and the other is black-and-white. Both are searchable.

Enjoy.

25 posted on 07/13/2015 10:12:43 PM PDT by snarkpup ("The only reason to vote Republican is Democrats." - Thomas Sowell)
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To: snarkpup
A random selection from the book:

For tooth wark, if a worm eat the tooth, take an old holly leaf and one of the lower umbels of hartwort,2 and the upward part of sage, boil two doles3 in water, pour into a bowl and yawn over it, then the worms shall fall into the bowl. If a worm eat the teeth, take holly rind over a year old, and root of carline thistle, boil in so hot water hold in the mouth as hot as thou hottest may. For tooth worms, take acorn meal and henbane seed and wax, of all equally much, mingle these together, work into a wax candle, and burn it, let it reek into the mouth, put a black cloth under, then will the worms fall on it.


26 posted on 07/13/2015 10:31:17 PM PDT by snarkpup ("The only reason to vote Republican is Democrats." - Thomas Sowell)
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