The Michigan Medical Codex: P. Mich. Inv. 21 - Corso di Papirologia

136 L.C.Youtie
E verso, 11; et al.
2-4. The supplements are illustrative, but the traces of ink fit the rest
ored letters. Galen, XIII 784-5, has h ToO 'AIV
LVLTOU TEOXUXPTlCTOC ?CTL ua'
9V6OEOC. rTpL cwLT-C 6E yQ&(PEL 6 'Hp&c OVTCwc' i TOV ACOV6LTOU, lTX. "The
plaster of Azanites has many uses and is highly esteemed. Concerning it
Heras writes thus: 'The plaster of Azanites, etc.'" Aetius XV, p. 123, has
f TOO 'AvavLou ACovLou)
('ACavCLoU,
rTOX6xplcTOC TE XoL
Paulus
9v6oEoc.
VII 19.6 has only To TO) 'AcLV'ITOU (SC. (ppvtcxxov),or duorlov from the heading
of Chap. 19, "a relieving application"); and Oribasius, Frag. 90, f TOO
ACovVLTOU (sc.
9LThXcLcTpoc).
3ff. Both Galen (785) and Aetius (p. 123) have the following, with unim
portant variations: TLOL: TtpOC TO XO.XOfl1fln TLC.VTOL, yCLyypC.LVC.c, cupLyycLC,
cpcslTo
(P141O.TO.,
TpO.U1LTC., rLQLOUTOL, TEEPL ylouc,
rLO.Rxi)TL60C,
...
6XXLCTCL 6E
1TOL? L
...
xOLL Tpoc TOl ?V 6CTEpq
C@ p (P' 3V T TXnYT TEPQ Tl vTOpcV
? ,
VLOV ECTL at 'rtiL xcuxon9ov. "The medication is effective in all cases of
malignant sores, gangrene, abscesses, fresh wounds, ulcers caused by fire
or by frost, ... and for ulcers in the womb, tumors in general, and parotid
tumors, ... It works especially wellin cases where there is a wound46) of
the tendons or a muscle, and it is good in cases of malignant ulcers."
5. [T.LTL,E]e1ivOV: Galen has (785, 9-10) rLOLLC )O.'L ... .6LTL,E1eVlVn (SC.
94nvLrcTpoc). With the neuter, sc. XPVLO.XOV or dionov (cf. Paulus, in note
2-4, above).
6-8. The uses which are described in these lines, i.e. for fistulous ulcers
resulting from a lithotomy or those from the lengthy, multiple incisions neces
sary in fracture-operations, are not specifically mentioned by either Galen
or Aetius in connection with the plaster of Azanites. (Cf. note to lines 3ff.,
above.) Oribasius, however, especially recommends the applications called
"the tetrapharmacon, that of Azanites, and the Macedonicon," for treating
the wounds left after the excision of corruption, and for inflamations
complicated by spreading ulcers (III 561, 563).47)
6. [x0XTr]ouc: for xO6Xoc as a fistulous ulcer which spreads under the skin,
see LSJ, s.v. III 6. The ailment is found many times in Galen and an agglutin
ant plaster is the treatment prescribed. Cf. e.g. that called f 'IcLc of
Epigones (XIII 774), another noXuxpncTov pop4JLxov, which cites many of the
same uses as those listed in the note to lines 3ff., above. Cf. also Orib.
III 591; Aet. XV, p.113, 13-17; Paul. VII 17.44. xomnouc is found again in
our codex in A verso, 12 and B verso, 4.
45) 'ACxvCTou, two MSS; 'ACavtou, two other MSS.
46) In view of the context, TnYXny must here indicate a "wound", as in
modern Greek, rather than a "blow or "strike", although the wound may well
have.been caused by a blow or strike. See also LSJ, s.v. oAXfi, for "scars"
from nXny65v as well as TpWauLaTCV.
47) The three recipes referred to are found in Orib. Frag.No.90 (IV 608).
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