leechbook

词形变化

leechbooks 复数 leechbooks

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A medical text of the Anglo-Saxon era; a compilation of medicinal cures and remedies used by leeches.

    历史

    2004, J. P. Griffin treacle and the foundation of medicines regulation The first was directly from Byzantine or other eastern sources, for example a Saxon leechbook of the 11th century records that Abel the Patriarch of Jerusalem sent Mithridatium or theriac to King Alfred the Great, who died on 26 October 899

词源

From Middle English leche (“doctor, physician”), from Old English lǣċe (“medical doctor”) + boc (“book”).

来源：wiktionary