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and his learned and ingenious subconscious."
The spectacular collapse of the Newbold theory has not deterred other
scholars from attacking the manuscript, though it has made them a bit
more cautious in publishing their "solutions." In 1943, however, a
Rochester, New York, lawyer, James Martin Feely, recklessly exposed to
the world—and to its ridicule—a solution that 'makes little sense in Latin
and not much more in English: "The feminated, having been feminated,
press on the forebound;
those pressing on are moistened; they are vein-laden; they will be
broken up; they are lessened."
Two years later, Dr. Leonell C. Strong, a highly respected cancer
research specialist, concluded that the Voynich manuscript was the work
of one Anthony Ascham, an English scholar of the 1500s and author of
an herbal. Strong cryptanalyzed out of the manuscript several texts in
alleged medieval English, including a contraceptive formula, by means of