Alphita : a medico-botanical glossary from the Bodleian manuscript, Selden B.35 / edited by J.L.G. Mowat.

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1887
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    C Xilocassia, i. cassia lignea. C Xilobalsamum, i. lignum balsami et hujusmodi. C Xpofora sive herba xpofori folia habet rotundaaHquantulumut pisa. Ysopum^ cerotum est succus lanse succidae per decoctionem extrac- tus.lana succida est lana inviscata quse pendet in velleribus ovium circa crura. C Yera^^interpretatur sacra. Indeyera pigra, i. sacra amara, pigra enim interpretatur amara, et yeralogo- dion, i. ad sermonem valens, et multa hujusmodi. C Yomenum interpretatur seipsum comedens, inde erpes yomenus, i. serpens seipsum comedens, erpes enim i. serpens, et est appropria- C tum hoc vocabulum ad designan- dum cancrum quia loca quibus insidet corrodit. Idem est estio- menus C Ypoeondrium vel ypocondria vide supra in j. C Ydromel est mel compositum cum aqua frigida. C Yringus centum capita idem. Zarchaton, i. psillium. C Zeo, zes*, i. ferveo ferves, inde apo- zima i. fervens decoctio. C Zizannia, lollium idem, i. colcel. C Zinziber radix est satis communis. C Zion ®, semperviva idem. C Zima est apostema fiancorum molle sine dolore. C Zirbusomentum idem. C Zinzer, i. viride eris. C Zucearia zuccare vel zuccarum de canna mellis fit per decoc- tionem. C Zuccoraria, i. flos agni casti. C Zuccarinum alumen, i. rotundum. C Zodoarium radix est, i. cetewale C Expliciunt Sinonoma Bartholomei. 1 olffvnr]. * See ante p. 25. IfpA is a nostrum or recipe: a famous one was that based on the aloe {■nmp6.), others bore the name of their inventors, Logadius (Actuar. Meth. Med. v.) and Rufus (Paul. ^gin. vii. 8): cf. also Galen, de Comp. Pharm. viii. 2, and Foesius, Pharmac, pp. 172 sqq. ' epirris eaOiSiJieuos. * C*'- ^ aeiCaiov. * See ante Adomen. ^ Perhaps Valerian, or more probably Turmeric; cf. Chaucer, the Millere's Tale, v. 21— 'And he himself as swete as is the roote Of lokorys, or eny cetewale.' Also Romaunt of the Rose, 1367— 'Ther was eke waxing many a spice, As clowe-gelofre, and lycorice, Gyngevre, and greyn de Parys, Canelle, and setewale of prys.'