A Speculation Concerning the Grain in Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale."

Author / Editor
O'Neill, Ynez Violé.

Title
A Speculation Concerning the Grain in Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale."

Published
Medical History 12.2 (1968): 185-90.

Description
Proposes that the "greyn" in the mouth of the clergeon in PrT (7.622) may be related to a common medieval medical prescription for various maladies, including loss of speech: a "castorea."

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale