The ‘Cecil’ Glossary of Materia Medica and Medical Terminology
| 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 |
| walworte |
n |
ground elder |
Sambucus ebulus |
IV 173 |
dwarf elder |
root, leaf & seed: dropsie, spitting blood, easeth gout |
n |
Gerard 1426 |
| wardens |
n |
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pears |
n |
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| wax |
y |
cera, ae |
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softens, heats, given inwardly against bloody fluxes |
n |
Culpeper p51 |
| whey |
n |
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serum lactis |
cleanses choler & melancholy, good for skin; opens bowels |
n |
Culpeper p51 |
| woodruffe |
n |
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Galium odoratum (Asperula odoratum) |
y |
sweet woodruff |
flower, stops fluxes of blood, |
n |
Gerard 1126 |
| woormewood (romane) |
n |
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Artemisia pontica |
III 113 |
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pleasant smell, good for weak stomach |
y |
Gerard 1097 |
| woormwood |
n |
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Artemisia absinthium |
III 23 |
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gout, paines of ears, dropsie: D- also keeps moths out of clothes |
y |
Wirsung |
| wormecakes |
n |
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cake-like medicines for worms: probably based on wormseed |
n |
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