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[16] The Book of the Dead, more properly known as The Book of Coming Forth by Day
can be found at http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/.
[17] For those who are interested, the four sons and their duties are Imsety,
human headed protector of the liver, Hapy, baboon headed protector of the lungs,
Duamutef, jackal headed protector of the stomach and Qebehsenuef, falcon
headed protector of the intestines. The canopic jars contained these body parts
after a body’s mummification.
[18] The original version of the famous Hippocratic Oath opens with "I swear by
Apollo the Physician and by Asclepius and by Hygieia and Panacea and by all the gods . . ."
[19] Available for free here:
http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/culpeper/culpeper.htm.
[20] Plates from this work may be viewed here:
http://www.bnnonline.it/biblvir/dioscoride/index.htm.
[21] An Online copy of this work is available here in English translation:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+toc. On this
point see also M. F. (Margaret F.) Roberts, Michael Wink, op. cit. p.31.
[22] Archemorus was the child of Lycurgus and Eurydice, who met his end at the
hands of a dragon.
[23] Odyssey, X. 27.
[24] The book was amended in Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew. After the fall of
Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, it fell into Turkish hands
and was later owned by the Jewish physician to Süleyman the Magnificent. There
is also an annotation in French, which may have been made after the sack of
Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade. Those that want to read more
about this fascinating book’s history should go to
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/materiame
dica.html.
[25] In particular Culpeper was in disagreement with a College of Physicians'
herbalist known as William Coles, of whom more in the next chapter.
[26] This work is also known as the Badianus after its author Juan Badiano.
[27] See Mike Sajna, Herbs Have a Place in Modern Medicine, Lecturer Says, in University
Times: Volume 30, Number 4, October 9, 1997, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
[28] See the interesting history of this famous London landmark at
www.leadenhallmarket.co.uk/history.shtml.
[29] Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, (1493-1541),
born in Switzerland, was better known as Paracelsus and is often referred to as the
father of modern medicine and chemistry.
[30] On this point see one of Britain’s most famous chefs, Delia Smith at:
www.deliaonline.com/articles/food/herbs-in-urbs,1241,AR.html.
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