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共 61 段- “There are differences in the particular actions of medicine
- COMMENTARY. It is probably the lignum aloes or _Aloexylon Ag
- COMMENTARY. The two species of elder, namely, the _Sambucus
- COMMENTARY. For the general literature of this subject, we w
- COMMENTARY. There can be no hesitation in deciding that this
- COMMENTARY. There can be no dispute that this is the ben nut
- COMMENTARY. Though it certainly be true, as stated by Beckma
- COMMENTARY. Dioscorides commends the _Mentha Pulegium_ as an
- COMMENTARY. The Latin poet Virgil, who applies the term Indi
- Helxine, or Parietaria, _Pellitory of the Wall_ (called also
- COMMENTARY. As stated by us in the Fifth Book, the Echidna A
- Hepar, _the Liver_; if that of a mad dog be roasted and eate
- COMMENTARY. That it was the _Ærugo Æris_, or Verdigris, seem
- COMMENTARY. Dioscorides and Galen direct the species which i
- Centaurium, _Centaury_; the root of the great centaury is ac
- Pliny, however, is not of this opinion (H. N. xiii, 16.) Our
- COMMENTARY. Our author’s account of the medicinal properties
- COMMENTARY. Without doubt it is the _Crocus sativus_. Diosco
- COMMENTARY. There can be no doubt, from our author’s brief n
- COMMENTARY. The ancient Litharge was nowise different from t
- COMMENTARY. Most of the botanical authorities agree that it
- COMMENTARY. Waiving disputed points regarding the ancient Ma
- COMMENTARY. Without doubt it is the _Meum Athamanticum_, whi
- COMMENTARY. We may pretty confidently refer it to the _Sinap
- Onagra, _Tree Primrose_ (called also Œnothera and Œnothyris)
- COMMENTARY. It is the _Ervum Ervilia_, Bitter Vetch. Dioscor
- COMMENTARY. It is undoubtedly the _Verbena officinalis_. Acc
- COMMENTARY. What this substance was is well stated by a comp
- COMMENTARY. It comprehended the _R. lutea_, Derlech, _R. arv
- COMMENTARY. Our author, it will be remarked, gives only one
- COMMENTARY. Dioscorides says of his first species that it re
- COMMENTARY. Aristotle, Pliny, Philoponus, Phile, and Avicenn
- Ficus, _Figs_; those which are dried possess heating powers
- COMMENTARY. Without doubt it is the _Trigonella Fœnum Græcum
- COMMENTARY. Aristophanes, we believe, is the first writer wh
- COMMENTARY. The herb is undoubtedly the _Lolium perenne_. Th
- COMMENTARY. It clearly is the _Teucrium Chamædrys_ L. Theoph
- COMMENTARY. In order to understand this very complicated sub
- This article is so important, that we shall be excused if we
- According to Sprengel (R. H. H. i, 268) the first mention of
- Avicenna describes the two kinds of sandal wood (_lignum pte
- See Serapion (De Simpl. 260); Avicenna (ii, 2, 95); and Ebn
- This name is loosely applied by the Arabian authorities to s
- _On those things which evacuate bile._ We may give cholagogu
- Of these medicines, the only one which we owe to the Arabian
- _An application to the navel as a laxative of the bowels._ O
- _Theriac salts._ Take four female vipers recently caught; an
- _The satyriac antidote._ Of ginger, of the superior satyrion
- _The trochisk melanchlorus_, or _black-coloured_. Of myrrh,
- On this account the finest scummed honey is mixed with them
- _Xerocollyria. The prophylactic of Galen._ Of Asian stone cu
- _The plaster of Nero, for blows and all pains of fleshy part
- Of those applications called emollient plasters, or malagmat
- The _dropax_ is thus described by Le Clerc: “On étendoit une
- _The foliatum, or ointment of Indian leaf._ Of Indian leaf,
- First, then, the letter χ having alpha placed above it, sign
- _Of the Roman Pondo._ The pondo argenti, amongst the Romans,
- Basilisk, treatment of persons stung by, ii, 189 et seq.
- Gazelle, or Dorcas, used for food, i, 148.
- Panaces, or All-heal, the medicinal uses of its different va
- Trichiasis, description and general treatment of, i, 415, 43