Middle English Dictionary Entry
impetīgo n.
Entry Info
| Forms | impetīgo n. Also impetige, impetigine & empetik. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A skin disease characterized by small white spots or scabs and by itching.
Associated quotations
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.230ra : Gootes muk & namely of þe mountes .. heleth wel & fyn with mele .. lepre not ful roted & scabbe & impetigo.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)99a/b : Þis euel hatte impetigo, for it lettiþ and greueþ þe skyn and þe fleissch, namliche with tikelinge and icchinge..but impetigo is an oþer yuel þan serpigo, for impetigo comeþ of more risinge & more fury matiere, for it comeþ of colera ande þerfore it makeþ euelong holes streite & fulle smale & moueþ alwey vpward as fuyre.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)193/18 : Impetigo, serpigo, & morphea ben seid in salerne diuers names.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)194/12 : Impetigo is anoþer maner passioun, as whanne a mannys skyn chaungiþ in oþer colour þan it schulde, & propirli into whit colour & wiþouten ony harmyng of þe skyn.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)6a : Betayne, hony, and wyne drowith þe dropesye and helpiþe þe empetik.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)113a/b : It is to vnderstonde þat morphea & alberas..scabiez, serpigo, impetigo [*Ch.(2): þe drye scabbe], & lich þyngez beþ maculose, spotty infeccions of þe skyn.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)114a/a : Of impetigine [*Ch.(2): þe drye scabbe] & serpigine & azaphati, fforsoþ..al þise ar infeccionz of þe skyn vnequale & smaly vlcerose, not mych profoundyng.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)114a/b : Þo þat ar fixed ar more proprely said azaphati & impetiginez; which forsoþ ar moble & crepyng hider & þider ar serpigines.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)154a/b : Also decocte honye wiþ þe pouder of brent sote and enointe þe pacient at þe fire, for it heleþ impetigo, serpigo, & malum mortuum.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)p.81 : Ðe ston is gode..for ycche in þe body, for þe scabe, for serpige, & impetige.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)74b : Y-sodde in water wiþ myys of brede and a frute that is callid malacidonia, hit [Artemisia abrotanum] doþe a-way þe sekenys of the empatyk.
Note: New form: Also..empatik.
Note: See *Lelamour Macer quot. in entry with similar spelling. ?Supplement quot. better placed here than under epatica n. or epatī̆k adj. This is a recipe made of water, southernwood (MED sǒuthern(e-wọ̄de), bread crumbs, and quince (MED citōnie n.). Quince is a styptic fruit; both it and southernwood were used to cure skin diseases.
Note: ?Expand etymology to include L genitive case of noun, since two of the forms reflect its influence: [L impetīgo, gen. sg. inpetiginis.]
Note: Provisional revised form section: Also impetige, impetigine, & empetik, empatik; pl. impetiginez.--notes per MLL
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. impetigine.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. impetigo.