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

  • Kost, J., 1819-1904
Date:
1849
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    A. D. HEBREW MEDICINE— Co&nued, Oil and wine applied to wounds. (Luke, x. 34.) Va- rious superstitious practices. (Adam Clark Coram. Note to Mark, v. 26.) For oilier information respecting Hebrew medicine, consult the Bible;—J. H. Horne's Introd. to the Crit. Study and Knowl. of the Holy Script. vol. iii. 8th ed. 1839;—Lautkxsehlageu, Dissert, de medicis vete- rum HebrsEorum, eorumque methodo sanandi, Stras- burg, 1780 ;—K. Sprengel, '; Analecta Historiea ad Me- dicinam Ebraorum, Hal. 1796.—D. Carcassone, Es- .sai Historique stir la Med. des Hebreux, anciens et mo- derncs. 8vo. Montp. 1815. \ Flora Biblica is contained in Shienuel's Historia Rci Herbaria:, t. i. Amstel. 1807. B. C. ASSYRIANS. The Babylonians had no professors of Medicine.— They exposed their sick in public places, in order that passengers might communicate their experience as to the best mode of cure. (Herodotus* Clio xcvii.) Extracted oil from the Sesamum. (Ibid, cxviii). Consult,—Smoll (D. $.), Venerandae Antiquitatis As- syriorum Chaldseorum, &c. Phylosaphoram Medicorum Regum et Principum Philosophtca et med. Principia. 4to. Lubec, 1009. ■ CHINESE MEDICINE. A. D. 229. Of its ancient state but little is known. The Chinese pretend- that its study was coeval with the foundation of their empire, and that their medical code was the pro- duction of Hoangti, B. C. 2000. (Grosier.) Before the Christian era there was a constant communication be- tween China and India. (Asiat. Journ. July, 1836.) Medical science commenced with Chang-ka ; for all works before that (said to be dated B. C. 1105 & 189,) treat of medicine, without giving prescriptions. (Trans, of Med. Soc. of Calc. i. 146.) As the Chinese have re- tained their ancient manners and customs, we must-judge of what their medicine was, by what it is. Pun tsaou (or Herbal,) the most considerable Chinese work on materia medica, includes minerals, vegetables, and animals. (Davies. ii. 278.) [A copy in the British Museum.] Ching che chun ching (Approved marked line of medi- -
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