The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art / A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries

by Edward Berdoe

[650] Saxon Leechdoms, vol. ii. p. 117.

[651] The doctor and the patient.

[652] Saxon Leechdoms, vol. ii. p. 137.

[653] Ibid., vol. ii. pp. 137-8.

[654] Church bells were anciently used more to frighten the fiends away than for calling together the worshippers.

[655] Psalms cxix., lxviii., and lxix.

[656] A formula of Benediction.

[657] Polypodium vulgare.

[658] Saxon Leechdoms, vol. ii. pp. 138-9.

[659] Leech Book, III. vol. ii. p. 343.