In Alexandria, he says, wishing to obtain the campion (lychnis) for a certain woman who was in danger, and not having got it, if I had not found and used the seed of acanthium, the woman would have been soon lost. Hence, having been requested by my companions, I made out a list of the medicines which may be substituted for one another, in order, beginning with this same article:
| Instead of | the seed of acanthium, campion (lychnis). |
| southern-wood (abrotonum), origany. |
| agallochus, sweet-cane (calamus aromaticus). |
| agaric, euphorbium. |
| Indian aloes, glaucium, lycium, or centaurium. |
| winter-cherry (halicacabus), the seed of strychnos. |
| asphaltum, the Bruttian liquid pitch. |
| aconite or wolfsbane, the root of the wild iris. |
| wormwood, southernwood. |
| opobalsam, myrtle-juice. |
| quicklime (calx-viva), adarce. |
| alkanet, hyacinth. |
| sal ammoniac, Cappadocian salts. |
| arsenic, sandarach. |
| starch, dried flour. |
| ammoniac perfume, bee-glue. |
| rose-wood (aspalathus), the fruit of heath, or the seed of the chaste-tree. |
| aracus (a species of pulse), Indian corn. |
| bitter almonds, wormwood. |
| Armenian stone, Indian ink. |
| the elder, thorn. |
| prickly-poppy (argemone), seriphium. |
| kingspear, the juice of beet. |
| wall-pepper, the juice or leaves of lettuce. |
| maiden-hair, aphroselinum. |
| Ethiopian olive, two parts of the tears of acacia. |
| Asian stone, gagate stone, or sal ammoniac burnt. |
| fox’s grease, that of a bear. |
| shoots of the black poplar, sampsuchum. |
| buprestis, bugs (blattæ). |
| butter, cow’s milk coagulated. |
| the juice of balsam, the juice of myrrh. |
| bdellium, the aromatic moss of trees (sphagnus). |
| gentian root, aromatic parsley. |
| Samian earth, the Egyptian leucographis. |
| Eretrian earth, Thebaic lime. |
| turnip, the sun-flower. |
| liquorice juice, the juice of mulberry. |
| vulture’s dung, pigeon’s dung. |
| soft earth, plumbago. |
| dorycnium, the seed of henbane. |
| dittany, sage. |
| bay-berries, dried wild thyme. |
| carrot, the seed of water-parsnip. |
| diphryges, Phrygian stone. |
| dracunculus, wake-robin. |
| sage, calamint. |
| the tear of olive, the juice of hypocistis. |
| wild thyme, potamogeton. |
| the seed of rocket, the seed of hedge-mustard. |
| the juice of elaterium, the juice of the leek. |
| the seed of hedge-mustard, soapwort. |
| the fruit of heath, the gall omphacitis. |
| ebeny, the wood of the lotus. |
| the leaves of wild fig, the dung of ibis (?). |
| the root of butcher’s broom, the leaves of the mulberry (?). |
| black hellebore, the root of papyrus (?). |
| enneaphyllon, the potamogeton. |
| old oil, boil a double quantity of oil with old hog’s lard. |
| ginger, pellitory. |
| deadly carrot (thapsia), the juice of the black chamæleon. |
| thapsia, the seed of cresses or rocket. |
| sulphur vivum, red arsenic (sandarach). |
| the rust of iron (rubigo ferri), the squama ferri. |
| the mistletoe of the oak, that of black chamæleon. |
| Illyrian iris, the aromatic elecampane. |
| cinnamon, double the quantity of cassia. |
| cyperus, the large juniper. |
| cardamom, cyperus. |
| costus, juniper-berries. |
| juniper-berries, ladanum. |
| calamus aromaticus, the moss of trees. |
| saffron, crocomagma. |
| crocomagma, Indian aloes. |
| castor, laserwort (assafœtida). |
| calamine, the Egyptian leucographis. |
| the tallow of the crocodile, that of the sea-dog. |
| hemlock (conium), the seed of coriander. |
| cantharides, phalangia. |
| the seed of bastard saffron, the seed of chaste-tree. |
| the juice of ivy, that of peach. |
| the palma Christi, the sordes from the palestra. |
| the root of capers, the root of heath or tamarisk. |
| the dung of the turtle, pigeon’s dung. |
| ceraunium, leucographis. |
| coral, moly. |
| cat’s dung, that of the ichneumon. |
| dragon’s blood (cinnabaris), the rhodoides. |
| cumin, the seed of cabbage. |
| field basil (clinopodium), the sun-flower. |
| calamint, the wild mint. |
| colocynth, the seed of the palma Christi called croton. |
| navelwort (cotyledon), the onocardium. |
| Colophonian rosin, the pitch of ships. |
| cynosbatos, the seed of the winter cherry. |
| linseed, the juice of beans. |
| pumice stone, Cretan earth. |
| cyphi, burnt dried fig. |
| buccina, oysters. |
| cardamom, xylocarpasum. |
| wax, bruised beans boiled and pounded with bee-glue. |
| frankincense, the terra ampelitis. |
| lathyrides (a species of spurge), the granum Cnidium. |
| dittander (lepidium), madder. |
| the magnet, the Phrygian stone. |
| the Phrygian stone, the agerat. |
| the seed of lovage, the seed of carrot. |
| the stone pyrites, the stone pyrobolus. |
| the flower of the stock gilly-flower, soapwort. |
| the seed of the lotus, the seed of beet. |
| the root of dittander, the leaves of capers. |
| the sea-hare, the sea-shell(?). |
| the root of dock, the root of pellitory. |
| Indian leaf (malabathrum), cassia or Indian nard. |
| mandrake (mandragora), dorycnium. |
| myrtle oil, the juice of mulberry. |
| mastich, the juice of lentisk(?). |
| myrobalan, rue. |
| mallows, fenugreek. |
| honey, rob. |
| manna (of frankincense?), the bark of frankincense. |
| mice dung, an equal quantity of flies. |
| stag’s marrow, stag’s grease or the marrow of a calf. |
| quinces, melilots. |
| Cyprian misy, Cyprian ochre. |
| spignel, myrobalan. |
| the juice of mulberries, the leaves of brambles. |
| roasted misy, diphryges. |
| Syriac nard, the aromatic rush. |
| navew, turnip-seed (?). |
| xylobalsam, the root of stock gilly-flower. |
| poppy-juice, the juice of mandragora. |
| opoponax, the milk of mulberry. |
| Cyrenaic juice, Syriac juice. |
| juice of carpasum, the juice of myrtle. |
| juice of the fig, the juice of mulberry. |
| juice of the willow, the juice of the black ivy. |
| juice of the rose bay, the mistletoe of the oak. |
| juice of the œnanthe, that of the cultivated vine-tree. |
| all-good (horminum), linseed. |
| rice, barley-flour. |
| Italian wine, Mendesian wine. |
| Rhodian wine, austere wine. |
| the star of Bethlehem (ornithogallum), anthyllis. |
| the unripe olive, the gall omphacitis. |
| onocardium, the herb psyche. |
| juice of hog’s fennel, liquorice-juice. |
| bee-glue, ladanum. |
| canker-worm of the pine, the wasps on the unripe rosin. |
| pepper, ginger. |
| fern, the seed of cneoros. |
| polypody, the root of mezereon, or of the chamæleon. |
| vervain, ground poplar. |
| polytrichon, wormwood. |
| rosin of the fir-tree, turpentine rosin. |
| dried roses, the dried leaves of the peach-tree. |
| oil of radishes, the oil of ricinus (castor oil). |
| rhodoides, Sinopic ochre. |
| Colophonian rosin, the pitch of ships. |
| aromatic rush, cardamom. |
| Cyprian spodium, the ashes of olive-leaves. |
| troglodytic myrrh, the calamus aromaticus. |
| stag’s grease, the grease of geese. |
| grease of the hyena, the grease of foxes. |
| grease of the fox, the grease of the bear. |
| root of soapwort, the root of the black hellebore. |
| satyrium, the seed of rocket. |
| salamander, the green lizard. |
| aromatic moss of trees, the sweet-rush. |
| syricum (psoricum?), litharge. |
| dross of lead, the scoria argenti. |
| marjoram (sampsuchum), the dried culinary sumach. |
| mustard, cresses. |
| sagapen, dried pine rosin. |
| scammony, the internal parts of the seed of palma Christi. |
| pine-nuts, the seed of cucumber. |
| alum, fossile salt. |
| the skink, satyrium. |
| antimony, the squama æris. |
| sweet rush, the root of knot-grass. |
| dross of copper, the Egyptian melanteria. |
| water-cress, basil. |
| cultivated grape, the flesh of the Syrian palm. |
| Saunder’s herb, southernwood, |
| the shell of the cuttle-fish, pumice-stone. |
| orchis (serapias), the root of pœony. |
| squill, bolbus. |
| sesamoides, what remains after the filtration of amaranth. |
| Indian grain, linseed. |
| the seed of henbane, the seed of sweet briar. |
| juice of hypocistis, the juice of acacia. |
| liquid pitch, opoponax. |
| unscoured wool (œsypum), the marrow of a calf. |
| hyacinth, the flower of woad. |
| St. John’s wort, the seed of dill. |
| burnt lees of wine, sandarach. |
| sea-weed, alkanet. |
| valerian, the moss of trees. |
| the gall of the hyæna, the gall of partridge. |
| the gall of the viper, that of the ichneumon. |
| gall of the shrew-mouse, that of the camel. |
| gall of the camel, that of the swift. |
| galbanum, sagapen. |
| germander, the root of the wild dock. |
| chamomile, anthemis. |
| ceruse, the dross of lead (scoria plumbi). |
| fleawort, the marsh lentil (lens palustris). |
| basil (ocimum), water-cress (sisymbrium). |
| ocimoides, the wild mint. |
Commentary. This is taken from a work ascribed to Galen, the authenticity of which, however, is very doubtful. Cornarius has attempted many corrections of the text, and we have found ourselves compelled to make other alterations.