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-No less than 34 authorities were citied in its pages - The ubiquitous
Diedcorides _ Serepion were each quoted more than 200 times,
whil ePliny, Galan, Platisrius * + the 11th C Persian Ibn
Sina or Avicenna could claim well over 100 citations apiece.
-Of the 381 woodcuts, 282 game indication of having been
copied directly from familiar German plants of field + garden.
- The medicinal properties fo gold, oliver, milk, oil, vinegar,
water, quicksilver, coral + lapis lazuli won their inclusion
also - to the compilar's mind, whatever headed was an
herb.
* Matthaeus Platcarius -12th C Salerno physician - "Antidoterium"
or "Circa inetans".
-contains a good picture of Canapus or Hanff (Cannabis sativa) our
'pot'. This was prescribed for distended stomachs, drapsy, pains
in the anal region + as a plaster for boils + carbuncles.
Applied to wounds it relieved pain + a decoction of its roots +
seeds mixed to white lead + roses was used to treat erysipelas.
Only when its vapors were employed to case headache did
it come close to its modern use as a hallucinogen.
Part 1 contains the foreward Part 2 chapt 1 - CCCXXV on plants
Parts 3-5 contain indicies + the tracton mire.( Uroscopy - flask - called a matula)
Fischer -has listed the plants of Schoeffer's ed by their scientific
names according to modern usage.
Arab physician - Serapion the Younger (to AD 820)
The black Hellabore or Christmas nose (H. higer) blooms between Dec + Feb.
In medicinal times it was called Christs herb because of the time of its flowering
The part used medicinally consists of the rhizome + roots. It was its
poisonous properties to contain glycosides which it contains. White hellebore,
Verateum albym, has also been known + used medically + for poisoning
from early times. It owes its poisonous properties to its alkaloidal content.
In the Middle Ages the Verateums were known as remedies for falling
sicknesse, phrensies, sciatica, dropsick, poison, + all cold diseases that be
of hand curation + will not yeild any gentle medicines.

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