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The first is called "Liber Simplicis Medicinæ," and the second "Liber Compositæ Medicinæ." These books were written in order to provide information mainly for the nuns who had charge of the infirmaries of the monasteries of the Benedictines.
The need for definite instruction in medicine on the part of a great many of the monks and nuns can be readily understood, and it was this need that Hildegarde tried to meet in her books. The first of her books that we have mentioned, the "Liber Simplicis Medicinæ," attracted attention rather early in the Renaissance, and was deemed worthy of print.
As in a few of the finest lyrics of Burns, with whom Catullus, as a poet of love, has often been compared, the ardency of passion has effected for quintessential moments the work that long ages may work out on the whole fabric of a human soul Concretam exemit labem purumque reliquit aetherium sensum atque aurai simplicis ignem. But long after the rapture had passed away the enthralment remained.
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