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Helmreich (Leipzig, 1889), pp. 5—9; also ed. Niedermann, pp. 18—35. Bedae Opera de Temporibus, ed. Jones, pp. 246-8. Theodori Prisciani Euporiston, ed. Rose. Bedae Venerabilis Expositio Actuum Apostolorum et Retractatio, ed. M. L. W. Laistner (Cambridge, MA, 1939), p. 145; Cassii Felicis De Medicina, ed. Rose, p. 122. 28 The earliest notices of medical practice time. Soon after 754, Cyneheard, bishop of Winchester, wrote to Lull, bishop of Mainz, asking Lull to keep him in mind if he acquired any books on the secular sciences such as medicine, because 'we have some medical books, but the foreign ingredients we find prescribed in them are unknown to us and difficult to obtain'.

Collections, ed. Glorie I, 525; trans. Lapidge and Rosier, Aldhelm: the Poetic Works, p. 92. '8 Theodore's warning agrees with one found in a later text: I t is to be heeded greatly that on the fourth night of the moon or on the fifth night one should not let blood, as the books say, before the moon and sea are in agreement. ' 9 But perhaps the nuns were using a bleeding chart similar to another one which survives from the late Old English period and which gives for the fourth day: 'In matutina bona est' ('It is good in the morning').

G. Helmreich (Leipzig, 1889), pp. 5—9; also ed. Niedermann, pp. 18—35. Bedae Opera de Temporibus, ed. Jones, pp. 246-8. Theodori Prisciani Euporiston, ed. Rose. Bedae Venerabilis Expositio Actuum Apostolorum et Retractatio, ed. M. L. W. Laistner (Cambridge, MA, 1939), p. 145; Cassii Felicis De Medicina, ed. Rose, p. 122. 28 The earliest notices of medical practice time. Soon after 754, Cyneheard, bishop of Winchester, wrote to Lull, bishop of Mainz, asking Lull to keep him in mind if he acquired any books on the secular sciences such as medicine, because 'we have some medical books, but the foreign ingredients we find prescribed in them are unknown to us and difficult to obtain'.

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