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Absinthii

Listed in: Woodall: Absynthium¹, Moyle: Absynthis², Tweedy: Absinth.³

Category: Chemical Medicine

Humoral Property: hot & dry in the 3rd degree⁴; hot & dry in the 2nd or 3rd degree⁵; "hot in the first degree and drie in the third"⁶

Photo: H. Zell - Absinthi Artemisia Absinthium
Rx: "Absynthium or Wormewood ...is bitter, sharpe, and astringent, clensing, purging, and comforting, excellent to purge the stomake, liver, and reines [kidneys], from chollericke humours, and to stay the weake stomake from vomiting, cureth the jandice, resisteth pestilent infection, helpeth the dropsie [swelling of soft tissues], and spleneticke [bad temper, thought to originate in the splene], and killeth wormes in the body."⁷

Description: "It has been in great esteem not only as a Stomachick, upon the account of its Bitterness, and also for the same reason a Destroyer of Worms, but as great a Detergent; and therefore prescribed in the Jaundice, and even in Dropsies. But its use in such Intentions is now quite laid aside, and it is little regarded as a Stomachick [medicine to improve the stomach and increase appetite]; … This Herb is in some of the Shop-Compositions [compound medicines], and a good Ingredient"⁸

¹ John Woodall, the surgions mate, 1617, p. 0; ² John Moyle, The Sea Chirurgeon, 1693, p. 0; ³ "158. John Tweedy's Bill for Medicines. November 8, 1743". Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents, John Franklin Jameson, ed., p. 0; ⁸ John Quincy, Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea, 1719, p. 0; ⁵ Nicholas Culpeper, Pharmacopœia Londinesis, 1720, p. 0; ⁶ Robert James, Pharmacopoeia Universalis, 1747, p. 0; ⁷ Woodall, p. 0; ⁴ Thomas Brugis, The Marrow of Physick, 1669, p. 0; ³ Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, 1657, p. 0; ⁵ James Rennie, A New Supplement to the Pharmacopœpias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Paris, Baldwin and Cradock, 1833, p. 0; ⁶ John Pechey, The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants, 1707, p. 0; ³ Samuel Frederick Gray, A Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia, 1821, p. 0;

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³ Stuart Anderson, Pharmacopoeias of Great Britain, International Society for the History of Pharmacy, www.histpharm.org, gathered 3/20/15;
³ Thomas Brugis, The Marrow of Physick, London, 1669;
³ David L. Cowen, Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in Britain and America, 1618-1847, Ashgate Valiorum, Burlington, USA, 2001;
³ David L. Cowen, Pharmacy An Illustrated History, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1990;
³ D.M. Dunlop, “The History and Development of the 'British Pharmacopoeia'”, British Medical Journal, Nov. 22, 1958, pp. 1250-2;
³ Betty Jackson, “From Papyri to Pharmacopoeia” From The Evolution of Pharmacy in Britain, Edited by F.N.L. Poynter, 1965, pp. 151-64;
Christopher W. Koehler, “Pharmacopoeias”, Modern Drug Discovery, November 2002, pp. 53-7;
³ Kremer’s and Urdang’s History of Pharmacy, 4th ed., Edited by Glenn Sonnedecker, American Instituted of Pharmacy, Madison, WI, 1976;
³ L.G. Matthews, “Herbals and Formularies”, From The Evolution of Pharmacy in Britain, Edited by F.N.L. Poynter, 1965, pp. 187-213;
³ R.S. Roberts, “The Early History of the Import of Drugs into Britain”, From The Evolution of Pharmacy in Britain, Edited by F.N.L. Poynter, 1965, pp. 165-85;
³ George Urdang, "How Chemicals Entered the Official Pharmacopoeias", Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Vol. XXXIX (1947-1949), Banner Bill Morgan, ed., pp. 115-25;

³ John Atkins, The Navy Surgeon, p. 13
⁴ Thomas Aubrey The Sea-Surgeon or the Guinea Man’s Vadé Mecum., p. 74-89;
³ Edward Barlow, Barlow’s Journal of his Life at Sea in King’s Ships, East and West Indiamen & Other Merchantman From 1659 to 1703, p. 508;
¹ Elizabeth Bennion, Antique Medical Instruments, p. 184-5;
⁶ Nathaniel Boteler [Butler], Boteler's Dialogues, p. 66;
¹ Stephen Bradwell, Helps For Suddain Accidents Endangering Life, p.43;
¹ Thomas Brugis, Vade medcum: or, A Companion For a Chirurgion", 1689, p.43;
² William Clowes, Selected Writings of William Clowes, p. 84-5;
² William Clowes,A Profitable and Necessarie Booke of Observations, for all those that are burned with the flam of Gun powder &c., p. 8;
² Emily Cockayne, Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770, p. 95;
⁴ Thomas Cogan, Memoirs of the Society Instituted at Amsterdam in Favour of Drowned Persons for the Years 1767, 1768, 1770 and 1771, p. 2;
¹⁴ Edward Cooke, A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World in the Years 1708 to 1711;
¹ James Cooke, Mellificium Chirurgiae, 1704, p. 389;
⁴ Edward Coxere, Adventures by Sea of Edward Coxere, p. 107;
² Helkiah Crooke, An explanation of the fashion and use of three and fifty instruments of chirurgery, p. 32;
⁴ William Ambrosia Crowly, "Crowley’s Voyage Round the Globe" from William Hacke’s book A collection of original voyages, p. 2
² Nicholas Culpeper, Pharmacopœia Londinesis, p. 32;
¹ John Covel, "Extracts from the Diaries of Dr. John Covel, 1670-1679," Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant, edited by J. Theodore Bent, p. 129
⁷ William Dampier, Memoirs of a Buccaneer, Dampier’s New Voyage Round the World -1697-, p. 214;
⁴ Jonathan Dickinson, Jonathan Dickinson's Journal or God's Protecting Providence, p. 47;
¹ Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, pp. 6-7;
¹ Johann Dietz, Master Johann Dietz, Surgeon in the Army of the Great Elector and Barber to the Royal Court, p. 409-10;
⁴ Pierre Dionis, A course of chirurgical operations: demonstrated in the royal garden at Paris. 2nd ed., p. 409-10;
⁴ George Francis Dow and John Henry Edmonds, The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730, p. 123;
⁴ Alexandre Exquemelin, The Buccaneers of America, 1853 Edition, p. 120;
⁹ Zachary B. Friedenberg, Medicine Under Sail, p. 35;
⁹ William Funnell, A Voyage Round the World, p. 226;
⁹ Jacques Guillemeau, The French Chirurgerie, p. 40;
² Alexander Hamilton, British sea-captain Alexander Hamilton's A new account of the East Indies, 17th-18th century, p. 404;
¹ Steven B. Harris, "The Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Dead", Cryonics, September 1990, alcor.org, gathered 12/2/13
⁵ Guliielm. Fabritius Hildanus aka William Fabry, His Experiments in Chyrurgerie, p. 3;
² Guliielm. Fabritius Hildanus aka. William Fabry. Cista Militaris, Or, A Military Chest, Furnished Either for Sea or Land, p. 31;
¹ Hippocrates, Hiipocratic Writings, Translated and Edited by Francis Adams, p. 82;
² K. Garth Huston, Resuscitation: An Historical Perspective, p. 9;
² Bruce S. Ingram, Three Sea Journals of Stuart Times, 1936, p. 121;
³ Robert James, Pharmacopœia universalis, p. 306-7;
¹ Captain Charles Johnson, A general history of the pirates, 3rd Edition, p. 270;
¹ Captain Charles Johnson, The History of the Pirates, p. 183;
¹ John J. Keevil, Medicine and the Navy 1200-1900: Volume II – 1640-1714, p. 25;
¹ John Kirkup, The Evolution of Surgical Instruments; An Illustrated History from Ancient Time to the Twentieth Century, p. 407;
³ Pere Jean-Baptiste Labat, The Memoirs of Pére Labat 1693-1705, p. 29;
³ Edward E. Leslie, Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls, p. 1,
² Rory W. McCreadie, The Barber Surgeon's Mate of the 16th and 17th Century, p. 58;
¹ Raymund Minderer, A Body of Military Medicines Experimented, Volume 4 of Paul Barbette's, Thesaurus Chirurgiæ, The Fourth Edition, p. 73;
² John Moyle, Abstractum Chirurgæ Marinæ, p. 24;
⁶ John Moyle, Memoirs: Of many Extraordinary Cures, p. 119;
¹ John Moyle, The Sea Chirurgeon, p. 2;
² Domingo Navarrete, The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete 1618-1686, p. 40;
³ Ambroise Paré, The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Paré, p.585;;
³ Ambroise Paré, The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, p.585;
⁷ Pierre Pomet, The Compleate History of Druggs, 3rd Edition, p. 260;
⁵ John Pechey, The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants, p. 159;
⁵ Roy Porter, "The Patient in England, c. 1660-c. 1800", Medicine in Society, edited by Andrew Wear, 1992, p. 91-118;
⁶ Matthias Gottfried Purmann, Churgia Curiosa, p. 209;
² John Quincy, Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea, p. 409;
⁹ James Rennie, A New Supplement to the Pharmacopœpias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Paris, Baldwin and Cradock, p. 263;
⁹ George Roberts, The four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts, p. 58;
¹³ Francis Rogers. from Bruce S. Ingram's book Three Sea Journals of stuart times, 1936, p. 230;
⁸ Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage Round the World, p. 61
¹ Hugh Ryder, New Practical Observations in Surgery Containing Divers Remarkable Cases and Cures, p. 82-3;
⁴ Bartholomew Sharp, "Captain Sharp's Journal of His Expedition," from William Hacke's A collection of original voyages, p. 44;
⁴ Captain William Snelgrave, A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea and the Slave Trade, p. 272;
¹ Henry Teonge, The Diary of Henry Teonge, Chaplain on Board H.M.’s Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, 1675-1679, p. 190;
⁴ Nathaniel Uring, A history of the voyages and travels of Capt. Nathaniel Uring, p. 242;
⁴ Lionel Wafer, A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, p. 103;
;⁴ Vice-Admiral Sir James Watt, "The burns of seafarers under oars, sail and steam", Injury: the British Journal of Accident Surgery, Vol. 12, p
;⁴ Vice-Admiral Sir James Watt, "Some forgotten contributions of naval surgeons", Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 78, September 1985, p.
;⁴ John Wilkinson, Tutamen Nauticum or The Seaman's Prevention from Shipwreck, Diseases and Other Calamities Incident to Mariners, p. 4;
⁵ Andrew Wear, Knowledge & Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680, p. 23;
² Guy Williams, The Age of Agony, p. 81;
¹ Richard Wiseman, Of Wounds, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, p. 454;
¹ Richard Wiseman, Eight Chirurgicall Treatises, 3rd Edition, p. 430;
³ John Woodall, the surgions mate, p. 202-16;
³ John Woodall, Woodalls Viaticum, p. 202-16;
¹ James Yonge, Currus Triumpalis, é Terebinthô., p. 110-1
⁴ James Yonge, The Journal of James Yonge [1647-1721] Plymouth Surgeon, p. 41-2;

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