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Wasted by long sickness — longa infirmitate decoctus — on the 14th of April, 1345, Richard de
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Aristotle, quoted by Bartholomaeus, stressed that milk was a superfluity of the menses (they were already a superfluity), which became milk by being boiled (decoctus) in the breasts.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Wasted by long sickness -- longa infirmitate decoctus -- on the 14th of April, 1345, Richard de Bury died at Auckland, and was buried in Durham Cathedral.
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Wasted by long sickness -- longa infirmitate decoctus -- on the 14th of April, 1345, Richard de Bury died at Auckland, and was buried in Durham Cathedral.
The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury Richard de Bury 1316
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