180 Aster History ; AETIOS 
presented a compend of the older Greek medicine. Aétios is re- 
markable for the numerous and complex preparations which he 
describes under the name Aster ; one medicine was his Aster inex- 
superabilis, another his Aster magni, another his Aster Ascle ‘piadae ; 
they were his leading remedies, his star preparations; they contained 
sometimes the earth knownas Aster, but not the plant Aster ; they 
were useful for ulcerations as the plant Aster was ; and it would 
seem that if their name had any relation to that of the plant it was 
through this similarity of their use. See p. 1, for details of his 
aster medicaments, 
Aétios by no means ignored Aster the plant, however ; the fol- 
lowing in his treatment of it, in his alphabetical discussion of sim- 
ples ;* using the Latin translation of 1542, and showing the 
context. It will be seen that it was adapted from Galen. 
Asparagus.... 
Aster Atticus, Bubonium. Aster Atticus, quem alii Bubonium 
appellant, quod non solum in cataplasmate impositus, sed etiam ad- 
alligatus bubonias ac inguinum tumores sanare credatur. Habet 
etiam quod discussorium, ut mixtarum virium sit, velut rosa, sed 
bubonium non ita astringit. 
Astaphis.... 
Bubonium sive Aster Atticus. De Bubonio dictum est in 
secundae appellationis elemento. 
Buphthalmum. ... duritias sanent ad ceratum permixti. 
XXIV. Pautus AEGINETA 
Paulus Aegineta,t Greek author, perhaps 630 A. D., of seven 
books of medicine,t was called § the most renowned | physician 
*P. 14 of e roben 
ghar Agneta, called Aegineta, Aeginetos, from birth in the island Aegina; 
called Periodeutes, 7. ¢., circulator, as a peripatetic physician ; and called a 
i. e., philosopher of the heal ing art. He is deemed by Fabricius (Meyer, 412) to 
<a flourished under Constantinus Pogonatu =, 668-685 A A.D. Abulfeda see: that he 
lived in Alexandria; if so, doubtless haies its capture by the Saracens under 
640. Haller, asin = Meyer, assigns him to the age of the emperor ae 
whose reign was 603-6. 
t First printed by sade in the original Greek, Venice, 1528; from which edition 
I ort again, Basle, 1538: three Latin translations appeared in that century, by Cor- 
1556, etc.; and an English translation, an unusual thing among writers of his 
ties: ‘banda: 1847, by Dr. Francis Adams. Sprengel praises the edition of 153% 
accurately edited by Hieronymus Gemusaeus, and of great use in establishing the text 
eerie 3 By the Arab writer Abul- pharagivs. 
