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Galen, and so did Kuhn, rendering it ‘‘ ulcus autem. . . curandum 
est. . . buphthalmi foliis.”’ 
But Adams, unconvinced by Galen and others, renders it 
“with leaves of camomile,” and adds that he believes the plant 
polyophthalmon is ‘‘ probably Axthemis valentina,” a plant which 
if the same with Axacyclus valentinus L., is not now known in 
Grecian lands. 
Whatever plant it was which Galen meant by ‘“‘ buphthalmon,” 
it was surely not the anthelmintic German chamomile, Jatricaria 
chamomilla L. - Nor was it the same, it is believed, as the buph- 
thalmon of Dioscorides ; and neither were the same as the Buph- 
thalmum of modern botany. 
Galen’s commentary on the passage in question is as follows, 
using the Latin rendering of edn. Kuhn: 
“« Praecipit autem ut herbae buphthalmi, quam polyophthal- 
mon appellat [but the Greek original is the opposite, cio fotduys 
0 t7¢ modvogAdi poy xOROUPEVHT, HTS xaL [J00g Og Aah Og évopdletac] 
non secus atque ante tussilaginis [éyp7ro to tod Ayyiov)] quae 
eandem vim habet, folia imponantur. Hujus quoque herbae 
meminit Diocles’ in libro de oleribus. [mépuntae 08 TaUTAS TIS 
Bordung xai Aeoxiic dy co mepe haydvoy.| Tutius autem curationis 
caput ait id esse debere quod in libro de vulneribus capitis demon- 
stravit, in quo ostensium a nobis est, curationem requiri sicciorem, 
quam quae in vulneribus circa articulos praesertim,”* 7. ¢., *‘ Hip- 
pocrates directs, moreover, that one should place on it the leaves 
of the plant called polyophthalmon, which plant is also named 
buphthalmon. Of this plant Diocles also makes mention in his 
book concerning herbs,” ete, 
: Galen’s own description of his Buphthalmon is as follows ;t 
using Kuhn’s Latin version : 
“ Buphthalmum sic appellatum est a floribus, qui figura quidem 
Coelius, Aurelianus, Oribasius, etc.; the largest T 
: : : ng Antigonus, of Macedonia (who died B.C. 239 after a ~— 
; . * years), included at the end of Paulus Aegineta’s 1st book of medicine. Pliny — 
__ Mhocles was first in date and reputation after Hippocrates. i 
t Galen, edn. Kuhn, 11: 852-3. 
