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The Michigan Medical Codex 127 But cf. also Aetius XV ?) p.103,11 TLOLEL ETLL TWV VEUPOTPX'TWV EV XPflCEL fwt-v o0cct. The spacing in our text could perhaps accommodate the reading: ]. T[o]tLoOc[OL TL V6UPOITp(O]&V (V XpfCL hTX., "... being effective in cases of persons wounded in the tendons; in using it, apply the medication to a piece of finest linen." If VEUpOTpQCA)TV happens to be right, it would appear that the text on Inv. 21 A verso preceded that on A, and that the long title of A verso, 7ff., beginning >4LoTov! uyp6v, introduced the parygron recipe of A 21) 4. After ThOLL the writing is almost completely obliterated, but the points of ink are more compatible with the suggested text, than the possible alter native UOL. 66' lpXe[yjI4ov]65v. But cf. the following note. 5ff. [uXx]wv: For this restoration cf. Gal. XII 325,7 ... TO UELOV ROXL 8LO' TOOTO LYVUTOLL ROLL TOLc EXi{i DpnLrLEuoucL WP4CpLXoLc, OLOV TEvrp ECTL X To uXaou,4Evov Ctpuypov, "... when pig fat in like manner is mixed with medic aments which heal ulcers, the remedy called parygron is of such a kind." Cf. also XIII 399,15. In XVIII B 598,10,22) the third treatise of Hippocrates on fractures, is the following: Tla yap &pX6Y40XVTCL eat ROLtOLPyOPLXOL p&pwaaXC, xc.arttep ?CTI TO T1 r1Lpuypov ovo0civtolevo. a Te T6T(Lpo.PLa0LROc 6uv`.L4Lc, 6&p X6yjVaVTOV }LV CPUX6lTTSL To TLELoVeOc iEpoc, Unapov 6V8. EPSpYCETCOLL TO XxOC. "For the medicaments which check inflammation and are soothing, such as those called the parygron and the tetrapharmacon, protect the affected part from inflammation and are effective against the putrid ulcer." Cf. also Aet. XV, pp. 46,16; 126-7. Paulus Aegineta 23) IV4.2 has E? 68 tXeCxn Ta n XpflcCaL TLcLpuypc~~ T(j) - 24) 1 CLPUYPW T Lo. TEo04POXuyoc XCxXou4E'sVY. "If the parts are ulcerated, use the parygron or the plaster called that with pompholyx." Cf. Gal. XIII 952 and Aet. XV, p.80, where our recipe is paralleled, for use of the parygron to heal minor inflammations UBpoLXestoc pXsyiyov&c). In his repetition of the parygron of Heras among his cX XEutxc 94TtLXO.cTpOL, taken from the 6TLOUXWTLxL'L Av8poi6Xou (XIII 532-3), Galen says of it: XXRn npoc 9pr-nTcLc, dv5pQcxc,5) xov6UXG4LcLToL, r?Lya&o.c, &cpsXyliO.vToc ayacv, Wc Hp&c 6 KO.TrnaL6oE. "It is another medication for herpes, carbuncles, callouses, and cracks of the skin, and it 20) Aetius Amidenus I-VIII, CMG VIII (Leipzig, 1935-1950) ed. A.Olivieri; XV, Athena 21 (1909) 3-144, ed. S.Zerbos. 21) Cf. A verso, 9-10 rTpoc ... VE'pUV 6[L]acxom&c. Cf. also A verso, 10-11 rauoLp& ?Xxn and A, 4-5 n x [tAxd6v. 22) I owe this reference, with many thanks, to Prof. J.Arthur Hanson who sent me a list of all the references for the word nrtpuypov which are to be found in the computerized books of Galen available at Princeton. They are: II 703, XII 325, 467, XIII 399, 455, 951-2, 959, XVIII B 598. 23) CMG IX (Leipzig, 1921-1924) ed. I.L.Heiberg. 24) 1 is omitted in the printed text, but the app.crit. gives the MS evidence: T4jS D; e T4S ABEHM; f lo ( = in) FGK. Cf. Orib.Eupor. IV 124 To r vuypov ( = Ttp-), 130 -T 6L' Toiowp6Xuyoc. And cf. H verso, 6 in our codex. ad 25) For gpnrccLc dvepoxxcic see A verso, 8, and cf. note to lines 2-4, above, fin.
128 L.C. Youtie very much reduces inflammation, according to Heras the Cappadocian." Another of the parygron parallel texts, Aet. XV, p.127, is called dXXA TCLPnYOPTTL e26) OpLOPL.cLoU TmpOC TCL a6ToILcLTa EcuXwn ht a ToUc TPU(PEPOXpOlaC, "another soothing medication of Oribasius for spontaneous sores and tender skin."27) After the ingredients is the following: TEOLE ai- C poc 'PTLfTaOc uat~~~~~~~0XTXL 1O.L rLpoc TO. LV aVL6pVT la axvc* Vy Iiq XOL v 1.TflTP4~X. ROLL X( cVEILVl >npoiv,uL 6iC),x. TCpO rt06c C la & uXon xaoi r 6-v (v mpocWr Wu&pcPxici. "It is effective against herpes and ulcers in the womb and anus, when diluted with rose oil, and against virulent pustules on the face."28) The recipe in Paul. VII 17.27 is called n&puypov IOpPLOcxctou. It differs from the others in that it adds three more ingredients,29) which may account for the cautionary admonition: DoLu4accWc TLOLEL Tpoc rLTEVCP@v, p5ay&6ac, -ELx uXi6v 6,, cplcL, (puX&ccou 6ucCiE8c yap cxEOTEXeCTLL, "it works wonderfully for cracks of the heels, but for ulcers, he says, be careful, for the medi cation will turn rancid in time." 5. 6aL[0o]v'cLC: for other plasters of Heras which are described as TLOLEC 5cLLlLovL&c, cf. Gal. XIII 547,15; 786,12. CL L dXXw[v] : sc. 6LaecEWv. Cf. Aet. XV, p.60,15 TLOLE 1{C.L m poc spUcL eXala ROL, dXaoac TrX6 cTcLc 6LacE6XCcC. 6. A horizontal break through this line has caused considerable loss and damage, so that the only securely read letters are y and p. The line could not have been read, nor indeed parts of lines 12-15, without the parallel text of Gal. XIII 951-53, where the parygron of Heras is described at length. ['C6n] yap xaL ccA)4aT[a: Galen has (952,3) caLTCLL yap TOVTO (POLXELaV 9TL pXEy4ovijv 9XoV T0 VL6XPLOV, OU >LETC moX5v XpoVoV Tfic cxEUO.cLxac, &WX ' eiwc CULTL X SeVOV. "For this remedy heals the portion of the body which has a minor inflammation, not after a long time of preparation, but immediately upon application." 6-7. TC9 TLcLpuy]pq) Xeyov6vcq: The name of the plaster is guaranteed by the four ingredients of the recipe which appear also in Gal. XIII 953 in the same order and with the same amounts, but in ounces instead of drachms, and with the same concluding direction. See the Table of Ingredients and Amounts at the end of the commentary. The name is found both as TO rcapuypov and h rapuypoc. Occasionally, TO nmvuypov and n mavuypoc are found in error for m6ipuypov, m&puypoc. In Orib.Eupor. IV 124 ( = V 786) is the title TO nmvuypov, 26) Of six MSS four have nLLPTIYOPnlTL1n or variant, one has nr&puypoc and the last, rL&vuypoc. For the ingredients and amounts as those of the parygron, see the Table at the end of the commentary. 27) Orib. Fr. 102 ( = IV 615, 15-16 in Oribasius, oeuvres I-VI [Paris, 1851-1876] ed. Bussemaker and Daremberg) has the following: rLpoc TCL a6ToxVLaTa. Xsux. napuypoc Tpoc TOUC TpU(pSPOXpOTaC. 28) Orib. Fr. 102: nrOL6Z ? LL yUVaLIU?LLOV C)aLTV ROLL TEPOC 9pnlTa1cC *CTL & 6 1CL.L 50.1TUXLXT LV6E,EcXC)tO.L lIpoc TO. nTpLL 4TL1TpP.V , ETL 6E lPOC XL1>EaXCC 1{OLOf'l DE?LC ROLL TOL TLEPL TLpOCCLrOLOV kFu6pacXLa. 29) 9 oz. of resin, 10 oz. each of linseed juice and oil.
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