difficile concoction

It s’agit ici de la première concoction, ou digestion gastrique, au sens où l’entendent Aristote et Galien. (Paul Delaunay)

concoction

Concoction: good digestion; a boyling, or seething (of meat in the stomack.)

douée

Doüé: Endued; endowed

Crenelé

Crené: Nickey, snipped, broken into; nocked, notched; jagged, indented

Crenelé: Imbattled; made into, or fashion like, battlements; also, Crené

Notes

tarin

Tarin: A little singing bird, having a yellowish bodie, and an ash-coloured head.

tarins

Fringilla (Spinus) spinus (L.) (Paul Delaunay)

tarin

Petit passereau (fringillidé), granivore, au plumage vert-jaune marqué de noir.

Notes

Melze

Meleses estants si frequentes au territoire d’Embrum & autout de Morienne, ne donneront despense à recouurer. Elles ont leurs semences plus petites que Cyprés, tant en la pommette que au noyau, toutesfois chasque chartée sur le lieu, qui l’entreprendoit, ne cousteroit pas un sou. C’est sur celuy dont la Manne est cueillie, & la grosse Terebenthine & l’Agaric aussi, & dont l’arbre est autant frequent es montaignes des Grisons, nommez en Latin Theti, qu’il fut onc, & es mesmes endroicts dont Tibere Empereur en feit apporter à Rome pour refaire le pont Naumachiarius, qui auoit esté bruslé.

Terebinthes

Semences de Terebinthes se pourront aisément recouurer à charges de Chameaux, car ceux de Halep, Damas, Antioche, & toute Syrie les mangent auec le pain, toutesfois plus pres, les montaignes au dessous de Tournon en sont couuertes.

terebinthine

Térébenthine, résine du Térébinthe (Pistacia terebinthus, L.), exploitée jadis à Chio, d’où on l’exportait à Venise. Là, mélangée à la résine du mélèze, elle passait dans le commerce sous le nom de Térébenthine de Venise. «Mitissimæ vero duæ inter eas sunt [resinas], prima terebinthina, larix altera nuncupatur». Galien, De compos. medic. per genera, l. I, c. 12. (Paul Delaunay)

De Compositione Medicamentorum per Genera; Of the compounding of remedies in relation with their genera or On the composition of drugs according to kind.

Google translation: “Two of them are among the mildest [resinas], the turpentine, larch next call.”

Galen compares with turpentine

Galien, De compos. medic. per genera, I, 12: voir Tiers livre, éd. Lefranc, n. 33, p. 374.

Terebinth

Pistacia terebinthus, known commonly as terebinth and turpentine tree, is a species of Pistacia, native to the Mediterranean region from the western regions of Morocco, Portugal and the Canary Islands, to Greece and western Turkey. In the eastern shores of the Mediterranean sea — Syria, Lebanon and Israel — a similar species, Pistacia palaestina, fills the same ecological niche as this species and is also known as terebinth.

John Chadwick believes that the terebinth is the plant called ki-ta-no in some of the Linear B tablets. He cites the work of a Spanish scholar, J.L. Melena, who had found “an ancient lexicon which showed that kritanos was another name for the turpentine tree, and that the Mycenaean spelling could represent a variant form of this word.”

The word “terebinth” is used (at least in some translations) for a tree mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures (or Old Testament), where the Hebrew word “elah” (plural “elim”) is used. This probably refers to Pistacia palaestina which is common in the area.

Terebinth from Oricum is referred to in Virgil’s Aeneid, Book 10, line 136, where Ascanius in battle is compared to “ivory skilfully inlaid in […] Orician terebinth” (”inclusum […] Oricia terebintho […] ebur”).

Terebinth is referred to by Robin Lane Fox in Alexander the Great: “When a Persian king took the throne, he attended Pasargadae, site of King Cyrus’s tomb, and dressed in a rough leather uniform to eat a ritual meal of figs, sour milk and leaves of terebinth.”

abus

Abus, abux, adj., abusé, en erreur, confus, stupéfait, émerveille.
Tu en es abux. (B. de Scb., III,67, Bocca.)

Notes

Qui tirent des flans

Voiez Pline, l. 20 chap. pénultiéme. Le même réméde fur emploié heureusement en Alsace l’an 1705 à guerir une espéce de colique qui régnoit parmi les chevaux de l’armée Françoise.

tirent des flans

Urquhart translates as, “And such as strike at their own Belly.” Ozell notes, “See Pliny, l. xx, last chapter but one. The same Remedy was successfully employ’d in Alsace in 1705 in the Cure of a kind of Cholic with which the Horses of the French Army were very much disorder’d.”

tirent des flans

Smith translates as “broken-winded.” Fr. tirer des flancs = Lat. ilia ducere. Hor. Epp. i. I. 9. Pliny N.H. 16, §15: “Verbascum … jumentis non tussientibus modo sed ilia quoque trahentibus auxiliatur potu.”

Et eſt l’eaue ainsi caillée remede preſent aux cheuaulx coliqueux, & qui tirent des flans.

tussi et purulenta excreantibus obolis tribus in passi totidem, verbascum cuius est flos aureus. huic tanta vis ut iumentis etiam non tussientibus modo sed ilia quoque trahentibus auxilietur potu, quod et de gentiana reperio.

For cough and spitting of pus, the dose being three oboli in the same amount of raisin wine, the golden-flowered verbascum is a good remedy. The potency of this plant is so great that beasts of burden that are not only suffering from cough but also broken-winded, are relieved by a draught, and the same I find is true of gentian.

les vertus du pantagruelion

Toute les vertus du pantagruélion que Rabelais va énumérer jusqu’a [voulez guerir une bruslure] sont attribués par Pline au chanvre (XX, 23 et 97) (LD/EC). Notons que R. accepte, comme tout le monde alors, la génération spontanée, notion faisant toujours autorité chez les médecins de la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle. Cf. J. Riolan, In libri Fernelii de Procreatione comment., Paris, 1578, 4: « Non est tamen necessarius congressus ad procreationem, nam plurima animalia de putridine excitantur … ».

Et eſt l’eaue ainsi caillée remede preſent aux cheuaulx coliqueux, & qui tirent des flans.

Cannabis in silvis primum nata est, nigrior foliis et asperior. semen eius extinguere genituram dicitur. sucus ex eo vermiculos aurium et quodcumque animal intraverit eicit, sed cum dolore capitis, tantaque vis ei est ut aquae infusus coagulare eam dicatur. et ideo iumentorum alvo succurrit potus in aqua. radix articulos contractos emollit in aqua cocta, item podagras et similes impetus. ambustis cruda inlinitur, sed saepius mutatur priusquam arescat.

Hemp at first grew in woods, with a darker and rougher leaf. Its seed is said to make the genitals impotent. The juice from it drives out of the ears the worms and any other creature that has entered them, but at the cost of a headache; so potent is its nature that when poured into water it is said to make it coagulate. And so, drunk in their water, it regulates the bowels of beasts of burden. The root boiled in water eases cramped joints, gout too and similar violent pains [Cf. § 228 and note on XXII. § 122]. It is applied raw to burns, but is often changed before it gets dry.

tirent des flans

Pliny 20.23: «On tient que le chanvre a si grande vertu, que mis en infusion en eau, il la fait prendre: aussi la baille-on à boire aux Jumens, pour les fair retentir» (trad. Du Pinet).

Notes

polemonia

Polemoniam alii philetaeriam ab certamine regum inventionis appellant, Cappadoces autem chiliodynamiam, radice crassa, exilibus ramis quibus in summis corymbi dependent, nigro semine, cetero rutae similis, nascitur in montosis.

Two kings [Polemon, King of Pontus, and Philetaerus, King of Cappadocia] have claimed to be the discoverer of polemonia; accordingly some call it by that name and some philetaeria, while the Cappadocians call it chiliodynamia [“The plant with a thousand powers”]. It has a thick root, thin branches with clusters hanging from the ends, and black seed. In other respects it is like rue, and it grows in mountainous districts.

Polemoine

Polemoine: Spattling Poppie, frothie Poppie, white Ben; also, the shrubbie Trefoile called, Make-bate.

Guerroyere

Guerroyere] Tout ceci est pris de Pline, l. 25., chap 6.

Guerroyere

Translated by Urquhart as “and by us for the same cause termed Make-bate.” Ozell’s footnote re. Make bate: Guerroyere. Warlike. All this and most that comes after is taken from Pliny l. xxv. c. vi, and vii, &c. &c. &c.

being the Cause of War

Pliny, N.H. xxv. 6, § 28: “Polemoniam alii Philetaeriam a certamine regum inventionis appellant.”

polemonia

« Polemoniam, alii philetæriam, a certamine regum inventionis appellant ». Pline, XXV, 6. C’est le πολεμώντον de Dioscoride (IV, 8). Tournefort, le premier, reconnut dans cette plante la Valériane grecque (Polemonium cæruleum, L.). C’est l’avis de Fée. M. Sainéan la rapporte à Hypericum (Ascyreia) olympicum L. La plante que les botanistes appelaient au XVIe siècle, avec Pena et Lobel, Polemonium monspelliense est notre Jasminum fruticans, L. (Paul Delaunay)

polemonia

De latinis nominibus, s.v. polemonia.

Polemonia

Pline, XXV, vi.

polemoniaceous

polemoniaceous [formed on modern Latin Polemoniaceæ (formed on Polemonium, adopted from Greek polemwnion the Greek Valerian, formed on proper name Polemwn, or, according to Pliny, from polemoj war)]

Of or belonging to the Polemoniaceæ, a family of herbaceous plants, chiefly natives of temperate countries, the typical genus of which, Polemonium, contains the Jacob’s ladder or Greek Valerian, P. cæruleum.

polemonium

polemonium. [modern Latin (J. P. de Tournefort Institutiones Rei Herbariæ (1700) I. 146), adopted from Gk. polemwnion.]

An annual or perennial herb of the genus so called, belonging to the family Polemoniaceæ, native to America, Asia, or Europe, and bearing single or clustered bell-shaped flowers.