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in which it is fpoken of by an old Greek Writer 
in Athreneus, as cited by Salmafius , it would feem, 
that it was only ufed for Pleafure, as an agreeable 
Sweet, Melle ipfo fuavius ; and, probably, continued 
to be of no other Ufe. Mefue tells us*, that Galen 
mixed Manna with Scammony. In the fpurious 
Piece de c Dynamiis afcribed to Galen , Scammony is 
ordered to be mixed with Honey ; but never once 
mentions Manna in any of his extant Writings. As 
Galen is known to be very minute in his Account 
of the Materia Medica of that Time, his Silence is 
a ftrong Argument again!! the Supposition, that even 
the Mel rofcidum was in Pharmaceutic Ufe, much 
lefs any other Species of Manna. 
If Galen was unacquainted with this Subftance, it 
is very probable, that Hippocrates was fo likewife ; 
lince a Drug that muft have made a confiderable 
Figure in his Materia Medica , would not have foon 
been ftruck off the Lift, or dropp’d into Oblivion 
and Difufe. 
But how fhall we get rid of the MeM xe \£&vov i 
the Name fufficiently intimating what Subftance was 
intended? Perhaps Foejiuss Suggeftion may help us. 
He thinks, that the Words might have been read 
with a Comma intervening, whereby we fhould 
have had Two diftinf! well-known Subftances, Honey, 
and Refin of the Cedar 5 Two Simples that were 
then, and continued long after, in familiar Ufe ; 
iliftead of one, which he mentions no- where elfe, 
.and feems to be unknown fome Ages after. 
* Mefue de Sirripl. c. 8. 
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