Printed: | 1998 | Author: | Priscilla Throop (Translator) |
Publisher: | Healing Arts Press | ISBN: | 0892816619 |
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Book Description
One of two major medical treatises by medieval healer Hildegard von Bingen, presented in its entiretyfor the first time in English during the 900th anniversary of her birth. * A seminal text in the development of Western herbal medicine. * Presents nine categories of healing systems--Plants, Elements, * Trees, Stones, Fish, Birds, Animals, Reptiles, and Metals--and * elaborates on their medicinal use. * Closely related to Eastern medical approaches that are gaining * respect today.
About the Author
A Latin and Greek scholar, Priscilla Throop holds a master's degree from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, as well as a Certificate of Advanced Theological Studies from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge. She is a member of the Vermont Classical Language Association and is currently translating Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae. She lives in Charlotte, Vermont.