Goat milk in contemporary pharmacopaea

[Koen G]

I don't think that finding another occurrence of "gasmich" would make this "good German"

That's not precisely what I meant. There was no preferential spelling yet in the 15th century, so if a group of native speakers said "mich" instead of "milch" that was just as good.

However, what we really need to find out is whether loss of diphthong and L-omission occurred together in the same region. This does not mean we need to find another attestation of "gasmich". But it would help if we found "mich" in the same area as where people write "a" instead of a diphthong "ei" or "ai".

With "bad German" I mean that there is always the possibility that this person was not a native speaker and hence made unpredictable mistakes. But if this is the case, we don't have much to go on because then everything could be a mistake.

However, if "gas" for goat and "mich" for milk can be linked to dialectical phenomena typical for a specific region, we would learn a lot and have near proof for the goat milk reading.

As things stand now, however, both "mich" and "gas" are hard to find