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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    The square hrackets denote the omisstons of Sloane 284 : the italics its additions. AbsinthiumS [herba fortis,] gal- lice aloine, anglice uuermode. [Respice in centonica et in san- donicum Abrotanum % linerinum *, gallice aue- royne^, anglice southerneuuode. Acacia, i. succus desiccatus pru- nellarum agrestium immatura- rura 10 Item, aeacia curra'' id est dura idem [est.] Acantus spina idem. Inde acantus egipciaca, inde acantus id est spina alba. [Respice in or- mum*.] 15 Achalaplie ygia, acanturie vel acan- tum, urtica pungens idem. Acopum i. mitigatiuum, et dicitur ab a quod est sine et copos quod est labor. Inde miraeopium^^i. mire 20 mitigatiuum. Aeora^'^ est morbus capitis citra cutem, minuta habens foramina ad modum canterni i. fani ^^, unde etiam fanus a quibusdam medicis 25 dicitur. I. Abscinthium saxidonium. 2. aloyne. weremod. 5. Imenuue. 7. prunellorum. immaturorum. 13. egyptiaca inde etiam acantus leuce. acantus vel acantum. 22. Achora. 24. catrini i. faui. 25. fauus. 6. sotherwod. 16. Acalaphe, ' ^iivBiov, E. P.N. p. 42, 'Absinthium, aloigne, wermod.' ib. p. 27, •Absynthium, weremod.' Mr. Skeat says the lit. sense is ware-mood, i.e. presenxr of the mind. It is more likely ware-moth, i.e. preservative against moths: cf. Macer, ' A tineis tutam reddit, qua conditur, arcam.' ' San- tonicum, the -SavTuvwv of Diosc. iii. 25. = dPp6T0V0v. * Poss.ibly aierinum, the prototype of averoyne. ^ E. P. N. p. 42, ' Abrotanum, averoine, sut)e-wurt.' « Bart. p. 9,' Achacia' i. succus prunellarum immaturarum,' see App. Acacia. Cf. Diosc i. 133. ' Matth. Silv. c. x, 'Acatia arsa,\.A\ira..' » '6pnivov. See ATpp. Acanetim or/ninum. ^ aKdKrt^r]. With. ygig. compare igridia, App. sub Acaneum. aKoirov, a restorative, Diosc. i. 93. iivpa.- KOTTov, a scented restorative. Galen, Trcpi avve. cpapii. t. kqtA -yivr] vii. 11, ^ivpaKorra KaXov- fifva twv dKorraiv pii^vviitvoiv toTs nvpois yiyvtTai. dxoip. (f^^vos a lantern, so that canierni represents lanternce. There seems to be some confusion as favus {Krjpiov) is the Latin name for this affection.