| Word From Document |
Chemical or Mineral? |
Other Contemporary Name or Alternative Spelling |
Modern Botanical: Stace/Grin |
Dioscorides ref |
Alternative Names |
explanation: D = Dioscorides |
Imported |
Source of Info |
| lac |
y |
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II 75 |
milk |
mollifies the belly, good for ulcers |
n |
Culpeper p51 |
| laconico |
n |
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n |
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| lactis asininum |
y |
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asses milk |
n |
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| lactis intictis |
n |
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n |
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| lactis virginis |
y |
virgin's milk |
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compound medicine |
contains litharg of lead, vinegar, allum, camphire, vicary; use as cosmetic |
n |
Culpeper p72, Wirsung p57 |
| lactuca |
n |
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Lactuca sativa |
II 165 |
garden lettuce |
causes sleep, softens belly, pleasant salad, mitigates inflammations |
n |
Wirsung, Gerard 307-8 |
| ladani |
n |
ladanum |
Cistus ladaniferus |
I 97 |
resin from plant |
heating; for infirmities of mother, used in plasters |
y |
Gerard 1291 |
| lamprey |
n |
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fish of petromyzon genus; cf eel |
n |
OED |
| lapis calliminary |
y |
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zinc silicate |
stone containing oxide & zinc; heals ulcers; in skin ointments |
y |
Estes |
| lapis malacensis |
y |
stone of mallaca |
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see Salisbury v96 162 |
in gall of porcupine; anti poison; cf bezoar |
y |
Lex. Med. |
| lapis bezoar see under bezoar |
y |
bezer stone |
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against poison |
y |
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| lask |
n |
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looseness of bowels: scouring |
n |
Wirsung p343 |
| laudanum |
n |
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tincture or pills of opium |
to mitigate violent pains, avoid taking too much |
n |
Culpeper p165; Pharmaco-Pinax p39 |
| lavendul. |
n |
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Lavendula vera [or angustifolia] |
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distilled water applied externally for migraines; flowers for conserves |
n |
Gerard 584 |
| lavender |
n |
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Lavandula stoechas |
III 26 |
French lavender |
good with hyssop for thorax, diseases of chest |
y |
Gerard 586 |
| lemnia (terra) |
y |
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V 97 |
species of bole from Lemnos, helps bloody-flux |
see terra sigillata; antidote to poisons |
y |
Wirsung, Culpeper p171 |
| lenitive |
n |
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applied to medicines which operate mildly |
n |
Lex. Med. |
| lentiscus |
n |
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Pistacia lentiscus |
I 70 |
mastich tree |
use fruit, leaf, bark, boughs, roots; all binding |
y |
Gerard 1432 |
| lettuce |
n |
lettis |
Lactuca virosa & sativa |
II 66 |
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cooleth heat of stomach, for sleep, against vomiting: D- wild has different properties |
n |
Gerard 308 |
| levyne (sharp) |
n |
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silicate of aluminium and calcium in crystals |
n |
OED |
