"A detailed exploration of the remedies and methods used by the healers who journeyed along with the Crusading knights Presents a traditional "cure-all" or leechbook of the ailments the Crusaders would have encountered and the remedies their mediciners would have employed, including recipes for many cures and instructions Includes a comprehensive herbal, listing all the medicinal plants and materials needed to make the remedies, potions, elixirs, and unctions of the cure-all Details the author's travels in the steps of the Crusader physicians where he met with healers still employing the mediciners' practices"--