Physicians offering draughts and medicine, Anglo-Saxon.

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Physicians offering draughts and medicine, Anglo-Saxon. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Agrimony; Cyclamine; [Arnote, i.e. "earth-nut"]. Top: Physicians offer draughts of agrimony to two warriors to cure sword wounds. Lower portion: Physicians offer a draught of Cyclamine against serpent bite. The herb which forms the ingredient of the draught is at the side of the picture; in it the English scribe has written Arnote i.e. "Earth-nut". This name was applied by the Anglo-Saxons to a variety of bulbous plants.

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