Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Conditions for health and disease 3. Physician and patient 4. The earliest notices of Anglo-Saxon medical practice 5. Medical texts of the Anglo-Saxons 6. Compilations in Old English 7. Compilations in Latin 8. Latin works translated into Old English: Herbarium and Peri Didaxeon 9. Sources for Old English texts 10. Making a Leechbook 11. Materia medica 12. Rational medicine 13. Magical medicine 14. The humours and bloodletting 15. Surgery 16. Gynaecology and obstetrics 17. Conclusions Appendices Bibliography Index.
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