Category:Classical Medicine
From Kook Science
Certain Remedies in Classical Medicine
| Remedy | Trans. | Usage | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanguis hirci | Buck's blood, blood of deer | Sudorific (sweat inducing), antipleuritic (reducing inflammation of lung pleura) | |
| Canis alba | White excrement of dog | Relief for epilepsy | |
| Syrup limacum | Syrup of snails | Relief for "lung and bronchial afflictions"; and "improvement of weaknesses and consumptions, especially in children and tender constitutions." (Consumption, phthisis; pulmonary tuberculosis) | A preparation made from snail mucus dissolved in sugar. |
| Oleum lumbricorum | Oil of earth worm | Relief for "lumbago (lower back pain) and rheumatism (pain in joints, connective tissue)." | A preparation from earth worms boiled in oil. |
| Syrupus de viperis roborans | Strengthening syrup of vipers | - | A "concentrated decoction of 12 vipers fresh-killed (minus the heads and tails)" that were "carefully compounded with best white wine, orange-flower water, cinnamon and other spices, and then made into a syrup with sugar."[1] |
| Sal volatile Viperarum | Volatile salt of vipers | Relief for "apoplexies, lethargies, convulsions, palsies, and other maladies believed to have their source in the brain." | |
| Syrupus de testudinibus resumptivus | Restorative syrup of turtles | - | A preparation of turtle-flesh and "some twenty ingredients," including "dates, raisins, liquorice-root, etc."[2] |
| Manus hominis mortui | Dead man's hand | "[G]reat efficacy in dispersing scrofulous tumors." (Scrofula, scrophula, struma, the King's evil; lymphadenopathy of the neck, mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis) | A mummified human hand. |
| Mumia vera | True mummy | - | A powder of either bitumen (asphalt) or mummified human remains, depending on your supplier. |
| Pulvis ad guttetam | Powder against convulsions | Relief for epilepsy | A powder of various herbs and, sometimes, ground human skull. |
| Usnea cranii humani | Human skull moss | - | A moss or lichen found growing on human skulls. |
| Spirit of cranium-humanum | - | Relief for epilepsy, gout, dropsy, etc. | A distillate of human skull. |
| Essence of Mans-brains | - | Relief for epilepsy | A distillate of human brain matter in alcohol. |
References
- Joynes, L. S. (May 1874), "Curiosities of Medical History — The Paris Pharmacopoeia of 1758 and its Treasures", Virginia Medical Monthly 1 (2)
Footnotes
- ↑ Joynes, 1874, p. 73
- ↑ Joynes, 1874, p. 72
Pages in category "Classical Medicine"
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