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. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%