The infirmary

1. Walter Daniel, Vita Aelredi, The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, ed. and tr. F. M. Powicke (Oxford, 1950), pp. 29-30.
2. D. Bell, ‘The English Cistercians and the practice of medicine’, Cîteaux XL (1989), pp. 139-173, at p. 151; M. Cassidy-Welch, Monastic Spaces and their Meanings (Turnhout, 2001), p. 146.
3. The late twelfth-century copy (Z19) (printed in The Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines and Premonstratensians, ed. D. Bell, pp. 87-120) refers to a Physica (no. 216d), an Antidotarius (no. 152; it has been noted that this probably refers to the Antidotarium Nicholai), a Liber medicinalis that was compiled by Hugh of Beverley (no. 225), copies of Constantine the African (nos 82c, 153).
4. Walter Daniel, Life of Aelred, p. 49. Aelred, however, insisted on watering his wine although the physicians recommended that it should be drunk pure.
5. Bell, ‘English Cistercians and medicine’, p. 152.