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The seven books of Paulus Ægineta, volume 3 (of 3) : $b translated from the Greek: with a commentary embracing a complete view of the knowledge possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on all subjects connected with medicine and surgery

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Author: Paulus, Aegineta

Paulus, Aegineta

Medicine; Medicine, Arab; Medicine, Greek and Roman

the milk of cows, and hence it derives its name. That it has concoctive
powers with a small portion of discutient, and is of intermediate powers
with regard to softness and hardness of the body, by which he means
that it has no powers to discuss preternatural tumours of very hard
bodies, but that it concocts and discusses soft inflammations, such as
parotis, bubo, boils in the mouth, and many others of a like nature. He
recommends it also in dentition and inflammatory affections of the mouth
in children. He also mentions it as a useful expectorant in pleurisy
and pneumonia, both when drunk and in the form of a linctus. (De Simpl.
ix.) Aëtius copies the description which he gives of butter from Galen.
(ii, 104.) Oribasius borrows from Dioscorides. (xv, 2.) Rhases quotes
Dioscorides, Galen, Oribasius, and Paulus, and gives nothing of his own.
(l. ult. 133.) Avicenna also recommends butter in exactly the same cases
as Dioscorides and Galen. (ii, 2, 110.) Serapion literally translates
Dioscorides and Galen. (De Simpl. 457.)


Βούφθαλμον,

Buphthalmum, _Oxeye_, has a flower like that of the camomile, but
much larger and more acrid. It is therefore discutient, so as to cure
indurations when mixed with cerate.

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COMMENTARY. The old herbalists were much puzzled what to make of the
_Buphthalmum_, some contending for its being _Helleborus niger_, some a
species of _Consiligo_, some a _Chrysanthemum_, and so forth. See Gerard
(Herbal) and Sprengel (Ad Dioscor.) It would seem likely that it is the
_Anthemis Valentina_. Our author borrows all that was worth copying in
the chapter of Dioscorides (iii, 146.) Galen expresses himself respecting
it in nearly the same terms as Dioscorides. For the Arabians, see
Avicenna (ii, 2, 97.) It is not mentioned in the Hippocratic collection.


Βράθυς,

Sabina, _Savin_, being like the Cypress, it is heating and desiccative in
the third degree; and consisting of subtile particles, it is possessed
of subtilizing and discutient powers if drunk. It is applied to
mortifications like the Cypress.

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The seven books of Paulus Ægineta, volume 3 (of 3) : $b translated from the Greek: with a commentary embracing a complete view of the knowledge possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on all subjects connected with medicine and surgery

Paulus, Aegineta

Medicine; Medicine, Arab; Medicine, Greek and Roman

the milk of cows, and hence it derives its name. That it has concoctive
powers with a small portion of discutient, and is of intermediate powers
with regard to softness and hardness of the body, by which he means
that it has no powers to discuss preternatural tumours of very hard
bodies, but that it concocts and discusses soft inflammations, such as
parotis, bubo, boils in the mouth, and many others of a like nature. He
recommends it also in dentition and inflammatory affections of the mouth
in children. He also mentions it as a useful expectorant in pleurisy
and pneumonia, both when drunk and in the form of a linctus. (De Simpl.
ix.) Aëtius copies the description which he gives of butter from Galen.
(ii, 104.) Oribasius borrows from Dioscorides. (xv, 2.) Rhases quotes
Dioscorides, Galen, Oribasius, and Paulus, and gives nothing of his own.
(l. ult. 133.) Avicenna also recommends butter in exactly the same cases
as Dioscorides and Galen. (ii, 2, 110.) Serapion literally translates
Dioscorides and Galen. (De Simpl. 457.)


Βούφθαλμον,

Buphthalmum, _Oxeye_, has a flower like that of the camomile, but
much larger and more acrid. It is therefore discutient, so as to cure
indurations when mixed with cerate.

       *       *       *       *       *

COMMENTARY. The old herbalists were much puzzled what to make of the
_Buphthalmum_, some contending for its being _Helleborus niger_, some a
species of _Consiligo_, some a _Chrysanthemum_, and so forth. See Gerard
(Herbal) and Sprengel (Ad Dioscor.) It would seem likely that it is the
_Anthemis Valentina_. Our author borrows all that was worth copying in
the chapter of Dioscorides (iii, 146.) Galen expresses himself respecting
it in nearly the same terms as Dioscorides. For the Arabians, see
Avicenna (ii, 2, 97.) It is not mentioned in the Hippocratic collection.


Βράθυς,

Sabina, _Savin_, being like the Cypress, it is heating and desiccative in
the third degree; and consisting of subtile particles, it is possessed
of subtilizing and discutient powers if drunk. It is applied to
mortifications like the Cypress.

       *       *       *       *       *

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The seven books of Paulus Ægineta, volume 3 (of 3) : $b translated from the Greek: with a commentary embracing a complete view of the knowledge possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on all subjects connected with medicine and surgery

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