A MEDICO-BOTANICAL GLOSSARY. 



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Ferrum, ferrugo, uel ferruga et 

 squama ferri eiusdem sunt uirtutis. 



Fermentum \ spersum idem, ut in 

 Alexandro. angl. leueyne ^. 

 5 Fren ^ interpretatur pellicula, unde an- 

 tiqui ante tempus Platonis uoca- 

 bant frenes quod nos hodie dici- 

 mus diafragma, et dicitur Plato^ 

 fuisse inuentor huius nominis 

 diafragma. Item dicuntur due 

 pellicule que obuoluunt cerebrum 

 frenes, s. pia mater et dura mater. 

 Et inde dicitur frenesis^ apo- 

 stema factum in eis, et declinatur 

 15 hic fren, nesis. 



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Flectidos^ ucl flectidon, pes colum- 



binus idem. 

 Flecteria'', bulla idcm. gall. bay- 



loun-. 

 Flemna ^, huius sunt v. species ^**. 20 



Fleubotomia ^' est recta incisio ^^ 

 Flegmon " dicitur quasi flammon et est 



apostema rematicum ut in lohan- 



nicis ". 

 Fincon indi uel oxifenicia ^^ i. tama- 25 



rindi, finichon '" pachilus ^^, palma 



[frincan] sed finicon balemon^' 



[dactulus] qui glandi assimilalur. 

 Frincan dactilus palme idem, et tini- 



cen balanion dactilus idem. 3 



4. beueyne. 10. dyafragma 

 20. Fleuma. quinque. 

 25. Finicon indie. tamarinda. 

 finicon balonion. 



II. obuolunt. 15. frenis. 18. Flectena. beyllun. 



21. Fleubothemia. 23. reumaticum. lohannicio. 



26. parachilus, 27. balonion. 28. quia. 29. Finican. 



* App. ' Germion, i. fermentum.' Matth. Silv. c. cclxv, ' Fermentinn la. grec. zemi vel zima vel 

 sparsum, arab. chamix.' Alex. Trall. (ed. Puschmann) ii. 117, rh Sid yvpfcus. ^ Leaven. 



^ (pp-qv. * Cf. Plato, Timreus, 70 A, tcls <ppevas 5ia<ppa-yp.a is to ixiaov avrwv TiOivTts. 



(ppevTjais. 



App. ' Fleclios, i. pes columbinus.' Ib. ' Sletio, i. pes columbinus.' See 



post, ' Splecton, i. pes columbinus.' Whatever this word may be, it apparenlly represents nfKoi- 

 vitU in Diosc. iii. 121, for which TTfKapyiTis has been conjectured (ed, Sprengel, note). The word 

 may however contain 7re\id5oj. According to Gerarde, p. 938, the plant is Dove's-foot Crane- 

 bill. ^ <p\vKTatva, a blister, a bubble. Sim. Jan. ' Fileklene, Cornelius Cel. grece 



dicuntur pustule.' * Cotgrave, ' Bouillon, a boyling, bubling or buble.' ^ <p\eyfia, 



*" Namely, sahum, dulce, acre, vitreuni and/rigidutn. Cf. Johannicius, Argent. per Hen. Sybold, 8. 

 1' <p\0oTop.ia. Sim. Jan. ' Flebotomia vene incisio.' Renzi, Coll. Salernit. iii. 2C)2, ' Fleboiomia 

 est recta vense incisio.* 

 ^ Perhaps <p\(yp.ovq. 



known as the author of the Isagoge ad artem parvam (s. techni) Galeni. Argent. 8. 1534. See 

 Choulant. " Bart. p. 32, ' Oxifenicia, i. tamarindi,. i. dactalus acetosus.' Gerarde, p. 1607, 



'Tamarinds . . . were not knowne to the antient Greekes, but to some of the later as Actuarins, 

 and that by the name of Oxypkawca, that is soure Dates, drawne as it may seeme from the Arabicke 

 appellation, Tamarindi, that is Indian Date.' ^" <poiviKOJv. This gloss seems to be a 



confused repetition of the succeeding one. Sim. Jan. ' Finichion, g. et finikos dactilus, finikes 

 dactili, et finikes etiam palme,' " 5dTuA.oy. ** <^ot'iKo)3dA.avoy, Diosc. i. 148, 



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*^ Cf. Bart. p. 10, ' Anothomia est cujuslibet corporis recta divisio,' 

 " yoannicius, an Arab physician (b. a.d. 809, d. 873 or 877), 



