two
preceding
volumes
were
executed.
Sydenham Society,
treated of in this work. And I have much satisfaction
in
from
him
on
this
part
of
my
work
THE TEMPERAMENTS.
A moderate
same
temperament
as
that
to
to
a
classification
of
simple
substances,
and
a
few
formulae
for
the
formation
 
that bitter
them should
assisted
in
a
small
degree
by
Galen's work
commentators
on
Theophrastus,
Pliny,
and
more
distributable.
CoMM.
which
Dioscorides
gives
to
the
of
vipers,
when
applied
veiy
acrid,
and
heating
almost
to
burning
when
applied
externally
with
other
things
in
particular
Stones.
A07joa,
Pulticula,
Pap,
is
a
of the
it
except
state.
Our
author
copies
from,
and
abridges,
Dioscorides
(ii,56)
be
fishes
which
the
kingfishers
seeds,
and
of
intensely
calefacient,
and
as
a
strong
ivhite
vine
(called
also
bryonia
and
psilothrum)
are
eaten
same
terms
as
the
aparine. (See
Gerarde, Sprengel,
to
men,
being
very
useful in the
CoMM.
CoMMENTAKY.
Thrcc
specics
of
the
Birthwort,
says
wakerobin
or
purgative
powers.
Our
author's
account
of
same
as
that
given
by
Dioscorides,
Galen,
and
Oribasius,
Geber
also
treats
of
sub-imed
arsenic,
by
which
it
an
oriental
species,which,
Macer Floridus.
of
Lignum
that
more
cale-
facient,
desiccative,
and
attenuate.
Arabians,
see
Avicenna
(ii,73)
was
sometimes
used
benedictus
as
cholagogue.
See
in
particular
Avi-
cenna
(ii,
our
Dispensatories
procmed
is Indian
ancients
would
appear
to
have
been
well
acquainted
down
to
Boerhaave^
splanchnon,
being
found
on
oaks,
white
poplars,
and
pitch-trees,
is
at
the
same
internally
nd
externally
he
praises
milk,
and
eye,
a
woman
is
properties
acute
fevers.
Hippocrates
prescribes
communis,
called
weasel
in
English,
nor
grows
in
the
Alps
of
Switzer-and.
of
Theophrastus.
The
Ampelites
would
seem
to
scarcely
and walls
boils
(phy-
mata),
desquamated
surfaces,
Galen,
a
very
recent
period.
See
Quincy.
E-apum,
Turnip
varieties of the
vinegar
a
small
slip
taken
from
a
pine-tree.
The
tree
AfijuatT/c jra,
Aa/uacratoj'ioi',
Damasonium,
Water
-plantain,
certain
detergent
powers,
and
proves
lithontriptic,
'
 
'
third
to
those
of
the
bay-
tree
{Laurus
nobilis)
t
considerable
length,
representing
it
to
be
heating
and
emollient,
Commentary. That
the Dictamnus
more
attenuant
than
the
pennyroyal,
Diphrygcs,
Husk
of
Brass,
is
possessed
of
mixed
powers.
substance,
it
is
sought
after
for
philtres,
r
love
potions,
(iv,
75.)
Galen
givesnearly
the
same
account
empirical
de-cription
subject
other
authorities
also
follow.
The
quercus
occurs
in
terms
by
Moses
Charras,
in
the
Royal
Pharmacopoeia
(p.
200),
is
so
called,being
earliest
ages
down
to
our
times.
Serapion,
and
many
of
the
dysuria,
the
bites
of
reptiles,
ischiatic
disease,
it
accordingly
in
the
part
of
this
work
devoted
to
Dietetics.
See
Vol.
I,
124.
of
Hippo-rates
or
Celsus.
In
the
it
mucli
smaller/^
would
other
authorities
notice
(p.949.)
and
paralysis
as
an
alexipharmic
medicine,
and
as
producing
abortion,
menstru-
See in
of
it,
states
its
medicinal
powers
to
be
heating,
digestive,
mildly
aperient
liver,
ansing
from
coldness
Serapion (184),
and Avicenna
haemoptysis
alexipharmic,
and
that,
in
a
pessary,
it
prevents
conception.
Our
author
abridges
Galen,
and
scorpions,
both
internally
and
exter-ally.
He
adds,
heliotropes
in
pains
tumours,
both
when
appended
as
an
amulet
body
and
nerves
third
degree.
It
also
incides
authorities
on
(iii,
3.)
Galen
Pharmacopoeia.
violet,
see
a
most
interestingdisquisitionby
Celsius
(Hierobotanicou
in
voce
Dudaim)
eyelids.
See
Avicenna
(ii,2,
739),
and
Serapion
(De
seed,
is
also
CoMM.
of Nil
mostly
copied
from
Dioscorides.
The
others
supply
no
treat
these
preparations
of
cadmia
were
prepared,
are
the
two
varieties
of
calamine,
now
called
by
mineralogists
 the
siliceous
reme-ies.
portion
Comm.
of
our
work
devoted
to
dietetics.
readily
warms
parts
which
are
recommends it
without
its
feathers,
when
Buccinee
correctly
that
a
species
of
quicklime
is
got
vegetable
cinnabar,
the
ancients
described
two
other
substances
under
this
name,
viz.,
the
as
being
an
aromatic
medicine,
thing
is
certain,
that
it
was
quite
of
ulcers,
and
to
the
abstergent
plasters
applied
to
(Medical
Botany.)
Dioscorides
describes
two
species
of
it,
which
probably
ai'e
the
C.
salvifo-
acute
diseases
and
cough,
that
it
says
of
its
seed,
that
it
is
diuretic,
the
Greek
Pharmacopoeia.
states
that
expels
the
tape-orm.
Another
the Lilium candidum.
sativus.
Dioscorides
gives
an
interesting
account
of
has also
authorities
supply
nothing
of
much
treat
afterwards^
when
describing
the
Egypt
They
say
Mat.
Indica
(ii^
90.)
Cytisus
Cistus called Ladanus
palate
is
smeared
Aeu/cotoi',
Viola
alba,
Stock
G'lUyfloioer
obscurely
treated
of,
their
authorities
in
general
seeming
to
confound
it
with
a
careful
study
the
eyelids
and
eyes.
(Collig.
iv,
43.)
haemo-tysis,
cajliac
affections,
and
pains
Lapis
aneseh.
administered
in
a
draiight
to
persons
affected
the
eyes,
(v,
156.)
Galen
merely
was
given
as
a
draught
to
epileptics,
and
used
in
vinegar
it,
Bergius
says,
:
 
authors
generally,
f
not
universally,
eant
were
popularly
used
as
counter-agents
n
cases
of
poisoningby
mushrooms.
lotus
belongs
to
littoribus
colligitur.
(Oi'ig-
xviii,
9.)
is mixed with
almost
have
described
its
operation
on
the
animal
economy
correctly,
Persians
still
use
the
maudragora
as
a
the
Arabians,
see
Avicenna
(ii,2,
516)
order,
acrid,
detergent
and
cathartic,
but
more
nutritious.
degree,
detergent,
and
diaphoretic
like
honey.
Mesne
recommends
it
for
the
composition
(De
Simpl.
vii.)
principally
s
being
alexipharmic,
was
If
wine,
complaints
Ficiis
that
the
Camelina,
or
Gold
of
Paradise,
hose who
not
Hippocrates
or
scholars
could
not
distinguish
it,
is
strongly
desiccative
and
astringent.
Naoooc
ooHiu
Nardus
jMontana,
wholly
overlooked
by
them.
Ebn
Baithar,
in
fact,
Ambrosiea.
the
writings
so
the
millepedes
CoMM.
Commentary.
the throat and
mentions
several
modes
of
adulterating
the
ears
and
eyes,
as
inducing
for
our
purpose
pains,
whether
taken
internally
or
rubbed
mandragora
may
be
given
as
a
It
 
Arabians.
Neither
Hippocrates
nor
of
purging,
and
at
the
same
iU-conditioned
and
phagcdsenic
ulcers.
Dioscorides
says
its
seeds
are
fragrant,
aromatic,
diuretic,
and
emmena-
gogue;
stomach
aud
colon,
also
promotes
the
urinary
discharge,
Pinea,
L.,
Stone
Pine.
Our
boiled in
Dioscorides
in
defining
its
medicinal
properties,
(ii,
9.
Polemonium,
have
noticed
it,
as
far
as
is
also
an
ingredient
in
ophthalmic
remedies.
CoMM.
Commentary.
What
works of the
Astragalus
Poter'mm,
exactly
the
same
cases
as
our
the
Ara-ians.
affections of the
of
certainly
he
Rhaplianus
sativus,
and
the
other
probably
the
R.
maritimus.
Dioscorides
gives
so
long
a
catalogue
renders vomit-ng
mode
of
burning
or
roasting
of
the
eyes,
headache,
Coriaria, or
are
astringent,
cleansing
and
corroding
substances
(v,
5,
6),
Pimpi?iella Saxifraga,
on
the
Mat.
Med.
except
Ebn
Baithar,
who
to
animals,
and
appeals
to
Nicander
in
confirmation
of
this
venomous
opinion.
to
the
viper.
moderately
diuretic,
along
with
must
answering
(Ad
Plin.
xxxvi,
25.)
Pliny
says
of
it,
to
be
the
same
as
nifje/Ia,
potherb
in
of this
to thei modern
Galenas
statement
of
its
medicinal
properties.
Galen
remarks
medi-ines
latter ranks it
states
that
it
was
used
in
ulcers
cynanche,
and
when
given
as
a
clyster
in
Greek
or
alum
was
either
to
heating
and
cooling,
Lentiscus,
\j.,
according
Comm.
to
the
uterus.
The
Arabians
display
an
intimate
acquaintance
with
the
schoenanths.
teeth,
(ii,
in
sciatica.
His
only
Arabian
authority,
Bimasui,
says
oxymel.
Commentary.
Pliny
says
of
it,
spleen.
CcMM.
Commentary.
coiTOsive
state
its
virtues
in
very
general
terms.
of
Hippocrates
and
Celsus.
The
Arabians
treat
first
degree,
and
dry
articles,
ave
given
it
to
statement
of
our
water
has
is
a
genus
closely
alUed
to
the
poppies.
The
other
writers
on
the
Mat.
Med.
treat
Hypoglossum.
It
appears
to
officinalis
ame
to
be
substituted
for
a
plant,
venomous
spiders
called
phalangia.
It
Gracum.
Our
author,
Hke
Galen
simples,
but
briefly
notices
it
in
a
preliminary
book
(v),
and
recom-ends
the
with
a
de-oction
of
them.
kinds
are
possessed
CoMM.
Commentary.
It
cannot
be
is
given
in
Grav's
Suppl.
to
Pharmacop.
(p.
242.)
It
dropsical
complaints.
CoMM.
Pharmacopoeia.
Chondrile,
Gum
Succory,
being
a
verdigris.
But
it
is
better
to
prepare
it
in
summer,
or
at
least
in
hot
weather,
pounding
the
urine
of
the
sea
some
people
called
it,
but
gives
its
medicinal
properties
(vi,
7),
but
inter-ally
taken
he
treats
Galen
give
ceruse
exactly
the
same
characters
as
we
have
stated
them
highly
interesting.(De
Simpl.
xi.)
Galen
recommends
eggs
ptysis
of the
apostemes.
Aben
Amram,
as
quoted
by
him,
says.
Camphor
is
cold
in
the
third
degree,
body
and
the
senses
along
and
laxative.
It
is
useful,
he
says,
on
his
own
authority
he
describes
very
accurately
the
pods,
stalks,
such
as
violets.
His
The
same
virtues
pains
of
the
kidneys,
stomach,
cachexia,
dropsy,
and
cold-ess
The
inner
bark,
he
says,
is
to
be
taken
blood,
is
beneficial
quenching
joints,
and
induces
great
debility
in
that
to
in
hemor-hoids,
(c.
261.)
Avicenna
gives
exactly
the
same
account
of
Fuel,
which
in
the
glossaiium
diseases,
and
especially
modern
practice,
teeth.
Elgafaki
says
it
cures
bleeding
and
swelling
alexipharmic
and
produces
abortion,
(ii,
, 61.)
substance,
and
more
especially
description
of
it,
given
by
Serapion,
as
far
trans-ation,
would
certainly
seem
to
agree
in
some
striking
points
with
that
of
the
Tumbasci
and
Sini,
by
(1378.)
Ribes.
pains
of
the
joints.
The
Royle
(Mat.
Med.
297.)
They
have
been
long
known
to
the
Hindoos.
See
Wise
which
evacuate
black
bile,
when
stomach,
promotes
digestion,
is
a
hepatic
bowels,
useful
in
orthopnoea,
by
are
to
use
drastic
purgatives
ither
in
order
to
transfer
some
matter,
or
to
dislodge
nd
remove
an
indurated
diathesis,
given
to
such
;
Colocynth
evacuates
especially
scammony.
Four
or
five
drops
of
the
juice
are
given,
entering
accordingly,
as
v,
vij,
or
ix.
A
purgative
trochisk.
Of
scammony,
dr.
iv;
of
euphorbium,
dr.
iv;
siliquse
f
scammony
 srater.
CoMM.
rush,
of
pennja'oyal,
of
:
 
upon
flocks
of
applied
to
Comm.
the
anus
were
a
sort
of
suppositories.
The
Chezananche
is
patient
falls
into
deliquium
animi
purging
it
may
be
in
our
power
to
remove
the
supposi-ory.
OF ANTIDOTES.
toasted,
of
each,
oz.
iij
attack
or
tainted
with
some
vicious
corpus
gravissima
qusedara
venena
assumpta
eademque
paulo
post
sine
ulla
noxa,
ab
exhi-
bito
pulvere
cum
as
those
mentioned
above,
like
the
Faustian,
are
applicable
in
spreading
ulcers
in
the
pudenda
and
anus,
yellow
acacia,
tritui'ation of the
general
which
things
when
reduced
to
a
fine
powder
and
sprinkled
upon
ulcers,
are
less
pungent.
The
coarser
the
powder
to
which
they
are
re-uced,
the
more
pungent
are
The
hydromelum
from
the
juice
of
apples.
Of
the
juice
of
clean
quinces
bruised,
sext.
ij
to
a
third
part.
Another.
soft.
Then
re-
moving
them
from
the
fire,
after
they
become
cold,
strain,
and
having
filtrated
the
apples
formerly
mentioned,
and
agree
of
^dne,
ceruse,
litharge,
round,
of
melanteria,
of
wax,
lb.
j
wax;
when
the
wax
is
all other
the middle
a
plaster,
and
softened
most
of
name
from
their
boiling
is
over,
and
the
ointment
moderately
cooled
in
particular
when
relaxed,
such
as
the
mastichinum,
nardinum,
gleucinum;
but
the
most
tonic
are
those
prepared
from
flowers),
nd
dried
for
a
night
and
a
day,
oz.
iij
of
the
dill
may
five
stirring
it
three
times
a
day,
the
lilies
in
the
seed.
For
breaking
down
the
grains
for
left,
filtrate,
that
they
following
MASUCHA,
WHICH
SOME
CALL
Of
melilots,oz.
x
works
inch. Now
ligula,cyathus,
acetabulum,
 c.,
a
pint.
For
example,
manes
is
a
corruption
of
the
Hebrew
maneh,
or
the
Medica,
vol.
iii,
p.
471.
Abrotanum,
see
Southernwood.
Abscess,
on
the
nature
and
general
treat-ent
of,
ii,
54-9
uses