Bestiary Dictionairy

I found the Bestiary dictionairy to be really interesting. It was interesting to see how a lot of the descriptions were similar to the way that the animals would be described today. it was also interesting to see how they were different. i also think that the way that we view things today has a lot to do with what we get out of the descriptions. for example, in the definition of the dog it sais that the dogs wounds can be cured by the dog licking them. this can be taken literally back when the dictionary was written, and people may have really believed that if a dog licks its wound it will heal. that is not normally the case, by licking the wound it will not be healed. it will only be cleaned. which will, in the end, help the healing process be faster. but it will not literally audomatically heal the wound. i wonder if people actually read this dictionairy back in midieval times and believed that they were facts.