Old English medicine

literary work

thumb|First page of Lacnunga, beginning Ƿit heafodwræce ("against headache") Lacnunga is a collection of miscellaneous Anglo-Saxon medical texts and prayers, written mainly in Old English and Latin. The title Lacnunga, an Old English word meaning "remedies", is not in the manuscript: it was given to the collection by its first editor, Oswald Cockayne, in the nineteenth century. It is found, following other medical texts, in the British Library's Harley MS 585, a codex probably compiled in England in the late tenth or early eleventh century. Many of its herbal remedies are also found, in varian

manuscript collection of medical remedies in Old English

medieval medicine consisting of pine tar and water