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leechbook

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Examples

  • 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

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History

Etymology

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