Vulgar words in Gilbertus Anglicus - Medicine of the Thirteenth Century (Page 1)

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With a Biography of the Author Published Posthumously for Private Distribution by the Cleveland Medical Library Association Cleveland, Ohio 1918 CONTENTS Page Frontispiece 5 Explanatory Foreword 7 Biography 9-14 Resolutions of the Cleveland Medical Library Ass'n 15 Gilbertus Anglicus--A Study of Medicine in the Thirteenth Century 17-78 [Illustration: HENRY E. HANDERSON] EXPLANATORY FOREWORD In the summer of 1916 the librarian of the Cleveland Medical Library received a manuscript from Dr. Henry E. Handerson with the request that it be filed for reference in the archives of the library.

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Another philosopher also declared that if you take the heel-bone of an ass and bind it upon the foot of the patient, he is cured, provided that you take the right bone for the right foot, and conversely, and he swore this was true.

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