Herbal & Animal Medicines — Medieval Manuscript

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For the bites of a rabid dog: Betony herb, crushed, made into a ball and bound on, purges [the wound]. Betony drachmas
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For pain in the loins and hips: Give two [drachmas] of Betony in honey-wine to drink. For one with a fever, in hot water, it heals the pains of the loins wondrously. For gout: Betony herb, boiled down to
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the third part of the water, give it to drink. Experts affirm that even applied [externally] it eases pain.
Apuleius Platonicus, from his own [writings], from many [sources] into few [works], handed down the herbs and the treatments of the body and the faith in the remedies to the public; [as to] the wondrous advancement of the nerves, which the divine [doctors] call the quickening of the physicians, [more] than the cures which [they] call... [The text is corrupt/obscure here].

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Arnoglossa is called by the Greeks.
Others ermion.
Others cinoglossa.
Others probation.
The Gauls call it turbuolotius.
Italians, poay.
Others eptapleuron.
Spaniards, tetarax.
Italians, plantagolara.
Others plantago maior.
Others septenneruia.

A botanical illustration of a plant, likely Arnoglossa (Plantain). It features several broad, green, lanceolate leaves radiating from a central point at the base. From the center rise three thin stalks, each topped with a small, brownish, oval seed head or flower spike. The plant has a thick, brownish taproot with smaller lateral roots visible.

It grows mostly in marshes and on plains. If hung around the neck, for pain of the flesh, the root of plantain eases the color.
For pain of the belly: Take the juice of plantain herb, heated; it takes away belly pain. If there are tumors, applied, it takes away the tumor. For sores, give the juice of plantain herb to drink; for pain of an ulcer, it cleanses the interior parts and purges the human chest wondrously.
If a growth has occurred near the eye or near the nose, plantain herb, applied with clean wool for nine days, will become healthy.
For dysentery: Plantain herb boiled with lentils; let [the patient] eat it to tighten the belly.
Likewise, for those who vomit pus or blood, give the juice of plantain herb to drink and it will be healed. To purge the Senecion herb
Others ethepfetos.
Others platofium.
The Gauls call it senecion.
It grows around ditches and in
reeds.
If anyone has a defect, resolve
it. Boil the fruits of the herb with-
out the roots, seven in number, and from that water, [use] wool, and by the wool [that] grows, and [you] yourself who do it, before the light
A botanical illustration of a plant labeled as Senecion (Groundsel). It has a central upright stem with several deeply lobed or pinnatifid green leaves. At the top of the stem and branches are clusters of small, yellowish-green flower heads. The root system consists of a central brown taproot with several smaller branching roots.
of the house, on the first night, burn the herb, [add] aristolochia birthwort and fumigate him, and lead him back to the house, and let him not look back afterward; he will be resolved.

Others chydas.
Others nihon.
Others emurcen.
Others surellinon.

Others copunnij.
Others cholopis.
Others stalachen.
Others glowpin.

Others cataalacen.
Others peudion.
Egyptians selinus agno.
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