Actually if you look at the text it is quite comprehensible, Hildegard using
the Greek *and* modern mediecal vocabulary. She's especially interesting in
it on migraine headaches, describing the capillary function, yet, klike
modern doctors, unable, apart from that, to give cause or cure.
____
Julia Bolton Holloway
via del Partigiano 16, Montebeni, 50014 FIESOLE, ITALY
[log in to unmask]
http://members.aol.com/juliansite/Juliansite.htm
Wherefore it behovyth nedys to be that alle hevyn alle erth shalle tremylle
and quake whan the pillers shall tremylle and quake.
Julian of Norwich, Paris Manuscript, fol. 158v.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|