Gilbertus Anglicus, Practica medicinae in Middle English, plus miscellaneous practical medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica VII)
- Date:
- 1462
- Reference:
- MS.537
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Gilbertus Anglicus, <i>Practica medicinae</i> in Middle English, plus miscellaneous practical medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica VII). Source: Wellcome Collection.
- Front Cover
- Excerpts from commentary by unknown author on astrologicalmedical works
- Tract on the properties of the moon
- Aspects of various planets
- Tract on weights and the difference between Troy weights and other systems
- Short texts on the relative volumes of the planets; on the age of the universe secundum Alfonsum; on which month is associated with which sign of the zodiac
- On how to make Quinta Essencia
- On the properties of Quinta Essencia
- Recipes for the stomach, the spleen, a fever and digestion
- 'Book of thunders' telling what to expect if thunder is heard in a particular month
- Treatise on prognostication by the quality of winter and summer weather
- On safe days for bleeding
- A compilation of four uroscopies
- On critical days of febrile sickness
- Recipes for fever, 'For him that pisseth blode', for dimness of sight, for coughing, for purging the head and 'For a collerike man'
- On the relationship of the four ages of man to the four seasons, winds and humours
- The relationship of the four complexions to the hours of the day
- Recipes for 'morfu' and jaundice
- Chapter
- Gilbertus Anglicus, 'Practica medicinae' in Middle English
- Two recipes for the stone, strangury and colic
- Chapter
- Golden Numbers for calculating the dates of the new and full moon in metonic (nineteen-year) cycles
- Dominical Letters for calculating the date in any year upon which the first Sunday would fall
- Signs of the zodiac
- Lunar tables telling which signs of the zodiac the moon will be in
- Instructions on how to use the lunar tables above
- Chapter
- Instructions for the lunar tables that follow; dated 1462 and useful until 1519
- Lunar tables used to determine when the moon will be full
- Chapter
- Signature 'galfrydus halle' in a medieval hand
- Chapter
- Back Cover
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