Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : adapted to the new physiological system of practice / by John Kost.

  • Kost, J., 1819-1904.
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1849
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    Watt (Dr. Robt,) Bibliothica Brittanica, or a general introduction to British and Foreign Literature. 2 pts. authors and subjects. 4 vols. 4to. Edinb. 1824. (Sec vol. iv.; sub- is Medica, Materia; Medicines; Pharmacopoeia, and Pharmacy.) Si>rengel (C.) Litcratura Medica externa rccentior seu enumera- tio librorum plcrorumque et eoinentariorum singulariurn, ad doctrinas medicas facicntium, qui extra Germaniam ab anno inde 1750 impressi sunt. Leipsicc, 1829. Roy (C. H.) Catalogus Bibliothecse Medico, t. vi. Amstel. 1830. (The 2d volume contains the Matcries Medica.) Iaslin (F. C. F.) Bibliothcca Mfedico-Chirurgica et Pharmaceuti- co-chemica. 6te. Auflage. Leipzig, 1838. See also Ploucquet, Literatura Medica Digesta, 4 vols. 4to. Tu- bings, 1808-9; and Continuaiio ct Supplementum I. Tubingffi, 1813, [vol. 3, art. Medicamenta and Med* icina subd. Litcratura'];—Berxstien, Mcdicinisch-chi- rurgische Bibliothek. Frankf. 1839. [Art. '-Materia Chirurgica, p. 333];—Voitgel, op. supra cit. ; Buca- xer, Einleitung in die Pharmacie, Numb. 1827;— Schwartz, Pharmakol lien, 'Leip'z, 1833; Dierbach, Die neuesten Entdcckungen in der Materia Medica, Bd. 1. Heideb, 1837; and Bailhere's-Cata- logue des Livres, 1840. B.C. EGYPTIAN MEDICINE. Thout or Thaut (also called Hermes or Mercury.) regarded as the founder of Medicine. v ' 'Medicine practiced hrst by priests, afterwards by phv- sicians who confined themselves to the study of one dis- ease. (Herod. Euterpe LXXXIV.) The sick exposed in public places. (Strabo.) Purges, vomits, and clysters, used for three da\s suc- cessively in every month. (Ibid. LXXVII.) Absti- nence ; dictetical regulations : the hog regarded as un- clean. Baths and unguents. Worshipped a bulbous plant (^pw;1 Squiila ?) to which they erected a temple Pauw. Finploycd aetitcs, slime of the Nile, frictions with cro- codile's fat in rheumatism, and mucilage of sc?nina psyl- lli. Salt. Avfn (carbonate of soda?), alum, plasters, and unguents; while lead and verdigris occasionlly entered into the latter. Fumigations with Cyphi (k^) a mixture of various drugs. (Dioscprides, i. 24.)