"leechbook" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English leche (“blood-sucking worm”), from Old English lǣċe (“medical doctor”) + boc (“book”).",
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      "form": "leechbooks",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 257:",
          "text": "One of the old Leech Books gives the formula for a salve against the \"elfin race and nocturnal goblin visitors.\" Fourteen herbs, including wormwood, viper's bugloss and fennel, were first gathered.",
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        {
          "text": "2004, J. P. Griffin treacle and the foundation of medicines regulation\nThe 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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        "A medical text of the Anglo-Saxon era; a compilation of medicinal cures and remedies used by leeches."
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English leche (“blood-sucking worm”), from Old English lǣċe (“medical doctor”) + boc (“book”).",
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