Leechdoms Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England Vol. 1: Being a Collection of Documents for the Most Part Never Before Printed Illustrating the History of Science in This Country Before the Norman Conquest (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Leechdoms Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England Vol. 1: Being a Collection of Documents for the Most Part Never Before Printed Illustrating the History of Science in This Country Before the Norman Conquest<br><br>IT will be difficult for the kindliest temper to give Prepossessions a friendly welcome to the medical philosophy of Saxon days. As man has an ever recurring proneness to make himself the standard of truth to condemn sneer at and despise all that he does not choose or is unable to comprehend so in a greater degree every generation of men admires its own wisdom skill science art and progress; it calls its own whatever it has learnt from men of former days and counts the few improve ments which have had their birth in its own time as triumphs and distinctions which elevate it above all the past.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.