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    The Lexicon of Pulmonary Ailment in Some Medieval Irish Medical Texts


    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 This contribution will examine some attestations of this term and its derivatives from the corpus of unpublished Irish medical tracts, with the dual aim of shed- ding further light on the technical terminology of medieval Irish medicine, and of offering some preliminary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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