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. HINDOO MEDICINE— Continued. 1841. O'Shauuhnessy (W. B.) The Bengal Dispensatory and Pharmacopoeia. Chiefly compiled from the works Roxburgh, Wallich, Ainslie, Wright and Arnott, Royle, Pcreira, Richard and Fee, and including the results of numerous special experiments. Publish- ed by order of Government. Calcutta. [Three parts, including pp. 622, have appeared.] Much valuable information on Indian Materia Medica is contained in Royle'1s Illustrations of Botany and other branches of the Natural History of the Hima- layan Mountains. 4to, 1824-41. Several interest- ing papers on the same subjects have appeared in the Anglo-Indian Journals. See also the works of Hey tie, Buchanan, (Hamilton), and Crawford. B.C. GREEK MEDICINE. 1. Before the time of Hippocrates. 1398. Melampus, a soothsayer and physician. Cured impo- tence by iron wine, (Apollod Bib/. Fr. transl. lib. i. cap. ix. p. 75); and madness by Hellebore (Pli- ny, xxv. 21.) 1270. Chiron, a Centaicr.-a. physician and surgeon. Was cured of a wound by the Centaurca Centaurium (Ibid, xxv. 30). Had several pupils, as Hercules (to whom the invention of the warm bath is ascribed) and iEsculapius. 1263. tEct'lapius or Asclepias, renowned for his medical and surgical skill. Employed amulets, incantations, charms, potions, incisions, and topical remedies [Le Clerc]. His sons Machaon and Podalirius also fa- mous surgeons ; the latter practiced venesection. 1184. Destruction of Troy. 1134. The first temple to /Esculapius founded. Europhon. author of the iSaiM pa, Kuhai or Cnidian Senten-j CCS. AsrLEPIADE.E. 968.] Homer mentions the Papaver Descendants and followers somniferum, sulphur fumi-of iEsculapius and priests 007. } gations, ,nv^U (Cannabis of his temples. Extended lndica?Opium'n),Moly('?),over 700 years, i.e. until &c, Hippocrates. The temples Arist.et'sdiscovered Silphium became schools of medi- [sec Percire's '■ Elements of cine, the most celebrated Mat. Med.1 vol. ii. p. ITlJ.of which were the Coan 0 584. J