Galbanum.
GAlbanum, or as some wryte Chalbanum, after the Greke, which is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉▪* 1.1 is sayth Dioscorides, the liquor of a tree, called Metopiū, of a coūtrey in Syria, where it groweth. Which name doth
A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. ... And in the ende a compendious worke of anatomie ... An historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of chyrurgerie and phisicke in our tyme: with a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true chirurgie[n]s. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle.
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- A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. ... And in the ende a compendious worke of anatomie ... An historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of chyrurgerie and phisicke in our tyme: with a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true chirurgie[n]s. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle.
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- Lanfranco, of Milan, 13th cent.
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- Imprinted at London :: In Flete streate, nyghe unto saint Dunstones churche, by Thomas Marshe,
- An. 1565.
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"A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. ... And in the ende a compendious worke of anatomie ... An historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of chyrurgerie and phisicke in our tyme: with a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true chirurgie[n]s. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05049.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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the Gum also sometymes obteine: For the vnguente Me∣topion is so called, of the admirtiō of Galbanum therwith. And he sayeth that it is adulterate with hulled beanes, resin, & ammoniake.* 1.2 Diosc. lib. 1. cap. 6. & lib. ••. cap. 79.
It ought to haue Similitudinem Thuris, uel Ammoniaci. It ta∣keth his name ab Albedine (sayeth Antonius Musa Brasanolus:) and therfore the whiter it is the better, and contrariwyse, the worse. Wherfore the Galbanum that we commōly haue, may well be iudged adulterate, or els the dregges & drosse of right Galbanum. It heateth after Galen, in the end of the seconde degree, or in the beginning of the thirde, and dri∣eth in the beginning of the second. Wherby it hath com∣forting, mollifiyng, and degestiue powre, aswageth paine, and is put in maturatiues: and in the prickes or hurtes of sinewes, it helpeth not a lytle to mitigate payne, if the ner∣ues be not bare, for it hath (as haue all other multificatiues) some putrefiyng propertie.
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* 1.1
Chalbane.
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* 1.2
De symp. li. 8 De com. med. secun. genera. lib. 3. 5. &. 7.