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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

Name: 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
Author: Paulus, Aegineta

Paulus, Aegineta

Medicine; Medicine, Arab; Medicine, Greek and Roman

COMMENTARY. Dioscorides states that the gentian (_Gentiana lutea?_)
has a heating and astringent faculty; that it is a remedy in cases of
persons bitten by venomous animals, with pepper and rue; that it is
useful in hepatic and stomachic affections; that it procures abortion
when applied in a collyrium; that it is a vulnerary herb, and is used
for many ulcers and other cutaneous affections. (iii, 3.) Galen justly
remarks that it owes its attenuant and deobstruent powers to its being
intensely bitter. (De Simpl. v.) Apuleius, like Dioscorides, recommends
it as an application for the bites of serpents. Hence it always obtained
a place in the Theriac. See Celsus (v, 23.) Serapion says it is the
best of all remedies in cases of hydrophobia, and this character it has
obtained in modern times. Avicenna gives a very circumstantial account
of it, enumerating all its virtues as stated by the Greek authorities,
namely, its abstergent, attenuant, deobstruent, diuretic, and emmenagogue
powers, and recommends it particularly as an application to parts stung
by venomous animals. (ii, 2, 281.) Ebn Baithar gives very interesting
extracts from Arabian authorities on this head. (i, 260.) It is found in
the Hippocratic collection. In the modern Greek Pharmacopœia it is stated
that the _G. lutea_ grows in the Alps of Switzerland. This would seem to
imply that it is not a native of Greece.


Γεράνιον,

Geranium, _Cranebill_; that species, the leaves of which resemble those
of the Anemone, and has edible roots, when drunk with wine to the amount
of a drachm, removes inflation of the uterus. The other species is of no
use in medicine.

       *       *       *       *       *

COMMENTARY. Dioscorides and the other ancient authorities describe only
two species of the _Geranium_, the former of which would certainly seem
to be the _tuberosum_, and the other the _rotundifolium_. They were not
acquainted with the _Geranium Robertianum_. Dioscorides merely says of
the geranium that when drunk in wine, to the amount of a drachm, it cures
inflation of the womb (iii, 121.) Few of the other authorities notice
it. See Ebn Baithar (i, 10.) The geraniums held a place in our English
Dispensatory until a recent period. See Quincy (p. 88.)


Γῆ,

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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

COMMENTARY. Dioscorides states that the gentian (_Gentiana lutea?_)
has a heating and astringent faculty; that it is a remedy in cases of
persons bitten by venomous animals, with pepper and rue; that it is
useful in hepatic and stomachic affections; that it procures abortion
when applied in a collyrium; that it is a vulnerary herb, and is used
for many ulcers and other cutaneous affections. (iii, 3.) Galen justly
remarks that it owes its attenuant and deobstruent powers to its being
intensely bitter. (De Simpl. v.) Apuleius, like Dioscorides, recommends
it as an application for the bites of serpents. Hence it always obtained
a place in the Theriac. See Celsus (v, 23.) Serapion says it is the
best of all remedies in cases of hydrophobia, and this character it has
obtained in modern times. Avicenna gives a very circumstantial account
of it, enumerating all its virtues as stated by the Greek authorities,
namely, its abstergent, attenuant, deobstruent, diuretic, and emmenagogue
powers, and recommends it particularly as an application to parts stung
by venomous animals. (ii, 2, 281.) Ebn Baithar gives very interesting
extracts from Arabian authorities on this head. (i, 260.) It is found in
the Hippocratic collection. In the modern Greek Pharmacopœia it is stated
that the _G. lutea_ grows in the Alps of Switzerland. This would seem to
imply that it is not a native of Greece.


Γεράνιον,

Geranium, _Cranebill_; that species, the leaves of which resemble those
of the Anemone, and has edible roots, when drunk with wine to the amount
of a drachm, removes inflation of the uterus. The other species is of no
use in medicine.

       *       *       *       *       *

COMMENTARY. Dioscorides and the other ancient authorities describe only
two species of the _Geranium_, the former of which would certainly seem
to be the _tuberosum_, and the other the _rotundifolium_. They were not
acquainted with the _Geranium Robertianum_. Dioscorides merely says of
the geranium that when drunk in wine, to the amount of a drachm, it cures
inflation of the womb (iii, 121.) Few of the other authorities notice
it. See Ebn Baithar (i, 10.) The geraniums held a place in our English
Dispensatory until a recent period. See Quincy (p. 88.)


Γῆ,

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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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