ASTER PROPERTIES ‘‘ AD INGUEN’’ 41 
Bubonium ... creditum est bubones sanare, Ga/en (tr.). 
Herba chelidonia (probably confused with Aster then as later) 
is a remedy for ulcers and troubles in the groin, Samonicus. 
Aster Atticus... bubones sanare credatur, (tr.) Galen, 
Oribasius, Aetios,* Paulus Aegineta,~ Avicenna, Rhases, Serapion. 
So Fuchs, Matthioli and most writers of the 16th century; with 
Kreuterbuchs of Verzascha, etc., much later. 
‘‘Uva lupina seu Aster” is prescribed for tumors in the groin 
by Bock, 1536. 
Aster... inguinibus illitus confert, (and again) inguinum in- 
flammationi prodest, Rue/, 1536. 
Purpureae violae [confused with Aster] ... imponuntur ... 
vulvave contra suppurationes, Avel. 
Stellaria [Alchemilla, confused with Aster] heals internal 
ulcers of the viscera; “et...in vulvam indita, alba... profluvies 
mirifice sistit,’’ Matthioli, 1560. 
Haec herba inguina sanet, John Lonitser, 1543 ; Adam Lonitzer, 
1357 and editions of his Kreuterbuch following : some modified 
editions continued to 1783. 
Inguinibus alligata tantum medicinam in eo malo homini faciat, 
Dalechamp, 1587. 
Laid to the botches or impostumes about the. share or privie 
members, prevaileth much against the same, Lye, 1595. 
The leaves of Aster or Inguinalis stamped and supplied unto 
botches, imposthumes and venereous bubones (which for the most 
part happen zz /nguine, that is, the shank or share) doth mightily 
maturate and suppurate them, whereof this ... name, Gerarde, 1597. 
Likewise [good] for botches that happen in the groine.— 
Parkinson, 1629. 
The purple leaves of the flower boyled in water was held to 
bee good for the paines and sores in the groine. It taketh away 
inflammations in those places.... The dryed flowers [should 
be] bound to the place that is grieved. Hung or tied to the 
place, it healeth the sores in the groine.—Parkinson, 1640. 
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* Aetios’ own favorite remedies were applications which he called asters of very 
various composition ; see infra under Aster names. 
t But Paulus Aegineta (representing Greek medicine of c. 620 A. D., or some 80 
years later than Aetios) for his BovBwvoxoiAn, used especially his cyparissus, symphy- 
into which Aster 
tum, bitter almonds, and a collyrion of highly complex composition, 
did not enter: 
