The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 1).
- Jonathan Pereira
- Date:
- 1843
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![HINDOO MEDICINE.—Continued. v. The Arabian authors (Rhazes, Serapion, Mesue, and Avicenna) mention Charik, and quote from the Susrula. Consult,— Wilson (H. H.), Orient. Mag. Calc. 1823; and Trans. Med. and Phys. Soc. Calc. vol. 1.; JJeyne(B); Tracts on India, Lond. 1814; Jiinslie (W.), Mat. Ind.2d vol. Lond. 1*20 ; Diaz (F. R.), Analecta Med. Lips. 1834 ; Royle (J. F.), Essay on the Antiq. of Hindoo Med. 1837; Geldemeister, Scriptorum Arabum de rebus indicis loci et opuscula inedita. 8vo. Bonn, 1838. Taleef Shereef, or Indian Materia Medica. 8vo. Calc. Eng. trans, by G. Playfair, 1833. ■•• • 4. English Writers on Indian Materia Medica. 1810 Fleming (Dr.) Catologue of Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs in the Asiatic Re- searches. Vol. xi. 1813—26 Ainslie (Dr. W.) Materia Medica of Ilindoostan. 4to. 1813 —Materia Indica, 2 vols. 8vo 1826. 1832 Royle (J. F.) List of Articles of Materia Medica obtained in the Bazaars of the Western and Northern Provinces of India. In the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 1 vol. 1832. 1841 O'Shaughnessy (W. B.) The Bengal Dispensatory and Pharmacopoeia Chiefly compiled from the Works of Roxburgh, Wallich, Ainslie, Wight and Arnott, Royle, Pereira, Richard and Fee, and including the results of numerous special experiments. Published by order of Government. Calcutta. [Three parts, in- cludiflwpp. 622, have appeared.] Much valuable information on Indian Materia Medica is contained in Royle's Illustrations of the Botany and other brandies of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains ' 4to. 1824—41. Several interesting papers on the same subjects have appeared in the Anglo-Indian Journals. See also the works of Hcync, Buchanan, (Hamilton), and Craw- ford. B. C. GREEK MEDICINE. 1. Before the time of Hippocrates. 1398 Melampus, a soothsayer and physician. Cured impotence by iron wine (ApoMod Bihl. Fr. transl. lib. i. cap. ix. p. 75); and madness by hellebore (Pliny, xxv. 21). 1270 Chiron, a Centaur, a physician and surgeon. Was cured of a wound by the Cen- taxrea Centaurium (Ibid. xxv. 30). Had several pupils, as Hercules (to whom the invention of the warm bath is ascribed) and /Esculapius. 1263 ^Esculapius or Asclepias, renowned for his medical and surgical skill. Employed amulets, incantations, charms, potions, incisions, and topical remedies [LeClerc). His sons Machaon and Podalirkis also famous surgeons; the latter practised venesection. 1184 Destruction of Troy. 1134 The first temple to ^Esculapius founded. AsCLEPIADEjE. Descendants and followers of ^Escula- pius and priests of his temples. Extended over 700 years, i. e. until Hippocrates. The temples became schools of medicine, the most celebrated of which were the Euroi'HOM, author of the rVw/*at KvtSiai or Cnidian Sentences. 968 ) Homer mentions the Papaver somniferum, 907 > sulphur fumigations, vrjTnvdtf [Canna 884 ) bis Indira ? opium ? ?), Moly (?), Ac. Arist.eos discovered Silphium (see vol. ii. ^. r itijw iii»oi ^^.j^uiai^u vi vvnujii were tne „._. „ p. i/i.) Coon and the Gnidian. The priests of the 617 Pythagoras employed Magic, Dietefics, former attempted lo unite rc£sonjn(r „?% 5fto .on ^tard Anise, and VinegarofSqudISexperience. those of the latter J^ 580—oOO (Pliny xix. o0.) themselves to observations and matters of fact. The remedies used were Gnidian berries, juice of euphorbium, hellebore, ]scammony, colocynth, briony, elaterium, jmineral waters, <kc. (Le Clerc, Sprengel] Bostock). Votive tablets were erected in the temples. 2. Hippocrates. 460—to 360 ? Hippocrates the Father of Medicine. Born at Cos. The 18th by his father from .F.sculapius. Ascribes diseases to the alterations of the humours (blond, pituita or phlegm, and yellow and black bile). An antipathic. Employed diet, baths, exercise, lilood-letting (venesection, cupping, and scarification), the actual cau- tery, the knile, and a very extensive series of medicines. Alston found in the works which pass under the mime of Hippocrates about 36 mineral, 300 vege- table, and 150 animal substances. and he adds, I cannot pretend to have over- looked none. The Hippocratean materia medica includes:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21146810_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
