Hayden, Deborah (2019) The Lexicon of Pulmonary Ailment in Some Medieval Irish Medical Texts. Zeitschrift fur Celtische Philologie, 66. pp. 105-129. ISSN 0084-5302

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Abstract

The term loch tuile is not recorded in published lexicographical sources for the Irish language, but is used to refer to pulmonary ailment in Irish medical ma- nuscripts copied during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in one case oc- curring as an interlinear gloss on the Old Irish legal text known as Bretha Déin Chécht (‘The judgements of the [mythological physician] Dían Cécht’). This contribution will examine some attestations of this term and its derivatives from the corpus of unpublished Irish medical tracts, with the dual aim of shed- ding further light on the technical terminology of medieval Irish medicine, and of offering some preliminary observations regarding the relationship between texts extant in four separate medical manuscripts.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Lexicon of Pulmonary Ailment; Medieval Irish Medical Texts;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Celtic Studies > Early Irish (Sean Ghaeilge)
Item ID:	15898
Depositing User:	Deborah Hayden
Date Deposited:	05 May 2022 14:57
Journal or Publication Title:	Zeitschrift fur Celtische Philologie
Publisher:	Walter de Gruyter
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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