Galen on anatomical procedures : de Anatomicis administrationibus / translation of the surviving books with introduction and notes by Charles Singer.

  • Galen
Date:
1956
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Credit: Galen on anatomical procedures : de Anatomicis administrationibus / translation of the surviving books with introduction and notes by Charles Singer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (170) Parygron, 'moist [plaster]', is a preparation mentioned by Galen in his De compositione medicamentorum per genera, K. xiii. 952, 953. There he ascribes its invention to one Heras, not otherwise known. He gives its com/ position as: Fresh lard 44 parts by weight, wax 24, white lead 6, and litharge 6. (171) Pyelos is a term that Galen uses for the infundibulum, as is also CHONE, an abbreviated form of choanE. (172) The exact form of these instruments can hardly be recovered. (173) The deep torcular, lenos, 'winepress', of Herophilus is the anterior end of the sigmoid sinus at its junction with the jugular. Here is an enlargement of the sinus which is, perhaps, inadequately stressed by modern anatomists (Fig. 25). The superficial torcular is the junction of the sigmoid sinuses and the sagittal sinus. (174) The work in the Hippocratic Collection De carnihus, 3, Littre viii, p. 586 (middle) uses the word meniNX in a way that can be translated only as 'membrane' in general. This usage is supported by the Greek lexicographer Hesychius. Galen is, however, wrong in suggesting that 'Hippocrates' normally gives MEN I NX this general application. (175) The rather unexpected epithet of the great cerebral as 'the vein which runs down' recurs in a confused passage at the end of this chapter. (176) The first duct is the groove in the floor of the third ventricle leading to the infundibulum. The second duct is the aqueduct. (177) Galen seems here to be refuting some unnamed colleague.