https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home daily 1.0 2026-03-15 https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2026/3/15/the-womb-does-not-creep-out-of-its-lair-like-a-wild-animal monthly 0.5 2026-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/5a865212-03e1-4a61-80a9-291ae256b8f6/Arctic_Fox_in_Summer_Coat_%2820986746788%29.jpg Ancient Medicine - “It is not as if the womb creeps out of its lair like a wild animal” — Soranus on the ancients on scented materials and women's medicine - Make it stand out An arctic fox peeking out from its den. Image by Eric Kilby via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2025/12/31/concerning-a-variant-in-the-de-fuentes-manuscript monthly 0.5 2026-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/34c9c6e5-7230-43e9-91b1-15bd440fd881/IMG_8174.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Concerning a Variant in the de Fuentes Manuscript https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2025/12/25/how-to-smell-nice-galens-advice-for-doctors monthly 0.5 2025-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/0213b217-7fd3-40d5-ab80-eb961ea69411/Hausziege_04.jpg Ancient Medicine - How to smell nice: Galen's advice for doctors - Make it stand out Goat, located in Fiesch, Valais (Switzerland). Source: Armin Kübelbeck via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2025/12/23/e4nj7qc498d7oevh4nqsb8a1v9x41x monthly 0.5 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/67034986-ab43-487e-b079-b90bf929c836/oct21-1920x1280.jpg Ancient Medicine - More on how not to talk to patients - Make it stand out Votive relief from the sanctuary of Amphiaraos at Oropos (Γ 3369). Source: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2025/12/13/patroclus-died-as-well-how-not-to-talk-to-patients monthly 0.5 2025-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/22b99eef-ef6e-4999-85cd-29d909916ac3/Fragment_of_bas-relief_in_the_from_of_a_temple._Wellcome_M0004635.jpg Ancient Medicine - "Patroclus died as well" (How Not to Talk to Patients) - Make it stand out Fragment of bas-relief, female patient on a bed. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/9/18/galen-simple-drugs-book-112-preface-ii monthly 0.5 2023-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/f5d3d42e-0bea-4387-8c34-631f2663335f/Garum_Mosaik_Pompeji+%281%29.JPG Ancient Medicine - Galen, Simple Drugs, Book 11, Preface (II) - Make it stand out Garum, mosaic from the villa of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus, Pompeii: G(ari) F(los) SCOM(bri) SCAURI EX OFFI(ci)NA SCAURI. “Flower of Scaurus’ mackrel gaurum, from Scaurus’ manufacturer.” Image by Claus Ableiter CC-BY-SA 3.0 via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/9/11/galen-simple-drugs-book-11-preface monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/542d8b2d-b231-47a7-8ecc-ff5f72a72a81/Tunisia-3363_-_Amphitheatre_Spectacle.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen, Simple Drugs, Book 11, Preface (I) - Make it stand out Leopard attacking a prisoner in an amphitheatre spectacle in a Roman mosaic (late 2nd century CE). Image by Dennis Jarvis. CC-BY-SA 2.0. Via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/9/6/the-first-socratic-dialogues-simon-the-shoemaker monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/17b3ccbb-9e25-4674-9fb2-047fe37816bd/Front_of_the_sarcophagus_of_Titus_Flavius_Trophimas_with_scenes_of_craftsmen_at_work%2C_a_shoemaker_and_a_rope-maker%2C_found_in_Ostia%2C_National_Museum_of_Rome%2C_Baths_of_Diocletian_%2813271306584%29.jpg Ancient Medicine - The first Socratic dialogues: Simon the Shoemaker - Make it stand out Scenes of artisans at work: a shoemaker (left) and a rope-maker (right). Sarcophagus of Titus Flavius Trophimas, found in Ostia. National Museum of Rome, Baths of Diocletian. Image by Carole Raddato CC-BY-SA 2.0 via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/9/4/galen-simple-drugs-book-10-preface monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/c72d85c3-854d-4aa6-ad4d-c81133bd047e/27-alimenti%2C_miele%2C_Taccuino_Sanitatis%2C_Casanatense_4182..jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen, Simple Drugs, Book 10, Preface - Make it stand out Honey bees. Image from 14th c. manuscript Casanatense 4182 of Taqwīm aṣ‑Ṣiḥḥa by Ibn Butlan, also known by the Latin title, Tacuinum Sanitatis. Image via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/8/28/galen-simple-drugs-book-9-preface monthly 0.5 2023-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/253828c0-f2dd-4331-9c1b-cd500a1e24ea/695px-Illustration_Cornus_mas0.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen, Simple Drugs, Book 9, Preface - Make it stand out Cornus mas, the Cornelian cherry. Illustration in Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany, via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/8/21/galen-simple-drugs-book-8-preface monthly 0.5 2023-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/79a0dce7-44a3-4683-beb9-e4009dc08764/spiknard.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen, Simple Drugs, Book 8, Preface - Make it stand out Al-nâridîn or al-sunbul al-hindî or Indian spikenard. From Fī Hayūlā al-tibb, trans. Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq of Dioscorides’ De materia medica. In the Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/8/16/oribasius-and-rufus-treat-mens-sexual-health monthly 0.5 2023-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/4c6775e6-626d-46ce-b82c-b3f7346ee2b8/DT5098.jpg Ancient Medicine - Oribasius and Rufus treat men's sexual health - Make it stand out Tile mosaic with rabbit, lizard and mushroom. 19th or 20th c. via Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/8/14/galen-simple-drugs-book-7-preface monthly 0.5 2023-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/96ac08b6-d580-41f5-a15f-34a56e113e18/Roman_fresco_Villa_dei_Misteri_Pompeii_001.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen, Simple Drugs, Book 7, Preface - Make it stand out Fresco depicting the reading of the rituals of the bridal mysteries. From the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, painted c. mid-1st century BCE. Image via wikimedia commons thanks to the donation of The Yorck Project Gesellschaft für Bildarchivierung GmbH. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/8/7/galen-simple-drugs-book-6-chapter-2-agnos-or-lugos monthly 0.5 2023-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/78a0273a-2972-42a1-a572-37ba2bcf683d/Agnos_36v_Dioscoride_Vienne.png Ancient Medicine - Galen, Simple Drugs, Book 6, Chapter 2: Agnos or Lugos - Make it stand out Angos in the Vienna Dioscorides, Codex Vindobonensis Med. Gr. 1 or the Juliana Anicia Codex, fol. 36v. Via Wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/7/31/galen-simple-drugs-book-6-chapter-1-abrotonum monthly 0.5 2023-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/7480ed52-3ddd-47b8-871f-ce71294bec20/Add+MS+22332+fol.+157r.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen, Simple Drugs, Book 6, Chapter 1: Abrotonum - Make it stand out Abrotano maschino. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli’s Discorsi, assembled and illustrated by Gherardo Cibo, c. 1564–1584. British Library Add MS 22332, fol. 157r. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/7/24/galen-simple-drugs-book-6-preface monthly 0.5 2024-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/91c9ddfa-62cc-4457-9a5a-787aa02b7f70/IMG_7032+1.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen, Simple Drugs, Book 6, Preface - Make it stand out Nut and astrological figures. Hypostyle, Temple of Hathor at Dendera, Egypt. March 2023. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/7/19/before-we-begin-the-prefaces-to-galens-simple-drugs-books-6-11 monthly 0.5 2024-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/9fced374-0d30-4be2-94e1-99713b651386/476986060.jpg Ancient Medicine - Before we begin: The Prefaces to Books 6–11 of Galen’s Simple Drugs - Make it stand out A Snake by Maria Sibylla Merian. Held at The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Image via the Harvard Art Museums Collections Online. Originally found as the frontispiece for this article by Johnathan Hay. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/7/15/sex-after-breakfast-and-other-intimate-advice-from-rufus-of-ephesus monthly 0.5 2023-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/82ee1396-0a7d-44b2-b769-8f8e5dbcd6ca/Gaziantep_Zeugma_Museum_Oceanus_and_Thetys_2_mosaic_0342.jpg Ancient Medicine - Rufus of Ephesus on Sexual Health - Make it stand out Octopus, detail from Oceanus and Tethys mosaic, Zeugmas Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep. Image by Dosseman via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/7/9/galen-on-designer-drugs monthly 0.5 2023-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/183a461a-e52f-4ea0-9505-562b0a72e4a9/ABPompei13.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen on Designer Drugs - Make it stand out House of Chaste Lovers, Pompeii. Image by Alessandra Benedetti, available here. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/6/21/catching-fish monthly 0.5 2023-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/60a656cc-a09e-4a92-888d-bebb8c57457f/villa_nile_mus_tripoli.jpg Ancient Medicine - Catching fish - Make it stand out Angler Mosaic, Villa of the Nile, Lepcis Magna, 2nd c. CE. Tripoli National Museum. via Livius.org. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/5/26/poetic-adventures-in-chatgpt-3-translation monthly 0.5 2023-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/2fb3dd4a-b776-4716-a849-2085ba8a8ab8/DALL%C2%B7E+2023-05-26+16.33.19+-+make+a+greek+style+vase+painting%2C+medical+themed%2C+based+on+the+following+poem_+Among+plasters+renowned%2C+there+exists+but+one%2C+Called+Cretan+plaster%2C+i.png Ancient Medicine - Poetic Adventures in ChatGPT 3 Translation - Make it stand out Dall-E’s AI genereated image based on the following prompt: ‘Make a greek style-vase painting, medical themed, based on the following poem: “Among plasters renowned, there exists but one, Called Cretan plaster, its virtues well-spun. It heals serpent wounds, bites of snakes' spite, And four-legged creatures, afflicted with blight, Even madness subdued, it brings them respite.”’ https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2023/4/30/perfumery-is-a-dyers-and-witchs-art-wfjt6 monthly 0.5 2023-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/2db74b18-81db-4ec3-9915-e727f151da21/E18498AB-D9D0-4E9F-B7C3-B53FB22357C4.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Perfumery is a dyer’s and witch’s art - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2022/12/15/more-on-menstruating-women-and-mirrors monthly 0.5 2022-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/3416c254-405c-4942-8821-09ce44985272/Mullus_barbatus_-_Gervais.jpg Ancient Medicine - More on menstruating women and mirrors - Make it stand out Illustration of a red mullet (Mullus barbatus L.). From the book Gervais and Boulart, Les Poissons tome 2. Paris: J. Rothschild, ca. 1860, which I learned about from the wikimedia entry this image comes from. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2022/12/14/spell-for-unknown-effect monthly 0.5 2022-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/56aa11a5-e9b6-4038-8539-f20e760f7bd7/papyrus_122_f001r_new.jpg Ancient Medicine - Spell for unknown effect - Make it stand out Not the papyrus the spell is from. This one is Papyrus 122 at the British Museum. You can look at it here. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2022/11/28/venerean-arts monthly 0.5 2022-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/296d698e-9a40-4484-8eef-352fcf5d1b6a/Picture2.jpg Ancient Medicine - Venerean Arts - Make it stand out Putti hanging dyed cloth to dry (I think). From the Casa de Vettii in Pompeii, now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2022/4/30/metamorphosis-of-pamphile monthly 0.5 2022-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1651352148655-0C8ZEL15W0QD85GSXRE9/apulee+francais+sm.jpg Ancient Medicine - The Metamorphosis of Pamphile - Make it stand out Pamphile changes into an owl while observed by Lucius and Photis. Illustration from Les Métamorphoses, ou l'Asne d'or de L. Apulée translated by de Montlyard, Paris, 1623, page 108. Image available from BNF. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2022/2/3/aetius-of-amida-on-the-choking-cure-of-st-blaise monthly 0.5 2022-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1643909547577-BGD1ZY10KZHHUIZYNV3A/download+bl+blaise.png Ancient Medicine - Aetius of Amida on the Choking Cure of St. Blaise - Make it stand out Likely St. Blaise, St. Agnes and St. Antony, at least according to this discussion on twitter. Blue silk binding with painting on wood. Egerton MS 809/1. 15th century. Front cover, inside. Via British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/12/30/going-skythian monthly 0.5 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1640874091855-Z2YMA30LT7BL2II57TH6/Pazyryk_felt_carpet.jpg Ancient Medicine - Going Skythian - Make it stand out Fragment of a Skythian felt carpet found in Pazyryk, Altay Mountains. 1st millenium BCE. Image by Schreiber via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/11/26/a-myrrh-and-iron-gall-ink-from-the-magical-greek-papyri monthly 0.5 2022-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1637608331781-KJBANPDXUM8L0RXBK2Z2/leiden+papyrus+x.jpg Ancient Medicine - A Myrrh and Iron Gall Ink from the Magical Greek Papyri - Make it stand out Above is Leiden Papyrus X at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. Third century. Image by Sailco via wikimedia commons cc-by-3.0. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1637609554279-BSNSCMD4S87VLYDCX2UR/magic+word.jpg Ancient Medicine - A Myrrh and Iron Gall Ink from the Magical Greek Papyri - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/11/3/for-the-unwounded monthly 0.5 2021-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1635957788671-TSTUARY2503FMNPOS3RS/38712330460_31e174e514_o.jpg Ancient Medicine - Encouragement for the unwounded - Make it stand out Cambridge, sometime in February 2018. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/9/6/pseudo-alexander-wonders-why-his-friend-apollonius-didnt-ask-him-earlier-to-write-a-book monthly 0.5 2021-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1630879611683-FRZBXS51QB2ZGLORSEL0/616px-Fresco_fragment_depicting_a_Roman_freight_ship%2C_from_Pompeii%2C_Antiquarium_of_Boscoreale%2C_Italy_small.jpg Ancient Medicine - Pseudo-Alexander wonders why his friend Apollonius didn't ask him earlier to write a book - Make it stand out On to new seas. Aphrodite the Rescuer (Αφροδίτη Σώζουσα) and her crew. Fresco from a house in Pompeii, so around first century. Photo by Carole Raddato via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/8/13/literary-barbarism monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1627940233448-MTTR3XOUE69AFF1J3XYF/640px-Table_with_was_and_stylus_Roman_times.jpg Ancient Medicine - Literary Barbarism - Make it stand out Writing tablet. Wiki says ‘Roman period’. Image by Peter van der Sluijs via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/8/6/galen-on-whether-healthy-living-belongs-to-medicine-or-physical-training monthly 0.5 2021-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1627939679630-0NIF1EJ7ESFXVZAL03EO/768px-Palaestra_scene_Louvre_G7.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen on whether healthy living belongs to medicine or physical training - Make it stand out From the wiki: “Palaestra scene, tondo of an Attic red-figure plate by Epictetos, ca. 520 BC–510 BC, from Vulci.” Louvre. Image by Marie-Lan Nguyen via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/7/30/bedside-manner-in-rome-some-sayings-attributed-to-the-physician-quintus monthly 0.5 2021-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1627401414768-PC37HUU882VQFGIY25G5/cq5dam.web.1280.1280.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Bedside manner in Rome: some sayings attributed to the physician, Quintus - Make it stand out Mosaic from the Bath of Caracalla. 3rd or 4th century CE. Gregoriano Profano Museum at the Vatican. Image via the Vatican Museums. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/7/23/do-truffles-come-from-thunder-and-other-questions monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1627068909938-LRPO0MEQIIBWHT8M4AE2/00000060.jpg Ancient Medicine - Do truffles come from thunder and other questions - Make it stand out A truffle hunter. From a Tacuinum sanitatis in medicina at the Austrian National Library (Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek). Codex Vindobonensis series nova 2644, fol. 28v via Austrian National Library digital collections. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/7/16/galens-commentary-on-hippocrates-on-fractures monthly 0.5 2022-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1626364971289-QKW2XV9BCKPR5K0CF0BP/Chirurgia_e_Graeco_in_Latinum_%5B...%5DGuidi_Guido_btv1b8510023k_187.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ Fractures - Make it stand out 16th c. manuscript illustration by Francesco Salviati of a reduction of the humerus. From a Latin translation of Galen’s commentary on Hippocrates’ Fractures. Par. lat. 6866, fol. 90 via BnF Gallica. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/7/9/two-reasons-galen-wrote-commentaries monthly 0.5 2021-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1625856950336-EJZ9M4X38N2PU1EUV9TH/v2_bsb11219753_00001_full_full_0_default.jpg Ancient Medicine - Two reasons Galen wrote commentaries - Make it stand out Frontispiece to De morbo attonito liber unus by Justus Cortnumm, Leipzig, 1677. Via BSB. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/7/2/bathing-with-galens-friend monthly 0.5 2021-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1624992560371-I3YMYTXPOS6HINZJPUMX/Caldarium_of_the_Old_Baths_at_Pompeii_by_Overbeck.png Ancient Medicine - Bathing with Galen's Friend - Make it stand out Caldarium of the old baths at Pompeii. Engraving in Johannes Overbeck, Pompeji in seinen Gebäuden, Alterthümern und Kunstwerken, Leipzig: Engelmann, 1884 via Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1898 via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/6/25/aristotle-on-wine-drunk-vs-beer-drunk monthly 0.5 2021-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1624620080211-PT6VCP56CJ0FUZKHFMNR/1024px-Antakya_Archaeology_Museum_Skeleton_mosaic_sept_2019_5915.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle on wine-drunk vs. beer-drunk - Make it stand out εὐφρόσυνος (euphrosynos): good cheer. Mosaic, 4th/5th century, Antakya (Antioch) Archaeological Museum, Turkey. Image by Dosseman via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/6/19/two-texts-on-scent-perfumes-and-dyes-aristotle-and-theophrastus monthly 0.5 2021-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1625912350420-WNM3N74WTK6QLTCSRYRI/20210511_223251551_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Two Texts on Scent: Aristotle and Theophrastus - Make it stand out Perfume and transmutation: Pamphile turns into an owl. Illustration by Jean de Bosschère, 1923. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/6/12/what-doctors-say-they-saw monthly 0.5 2021-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1623527729389-26N8HIBAG3JI0B4RWJGP/12_SMB_Sk+804.jpg Ancient Medicine - What doctors say they saw - Make it stand out Funerary relief for a physician, ca 100 BCE / 100 CE, marble. Part of the Soul is an Octopus exhibition: plaster cast, 20th c., Gipsformerei der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Spgntung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/6/4/galen-on-sleep-health-and-heartbreak monthly 0.5 2021-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1622819052645-EJMHS5PPHWMFMH3RH5TO/1024px-Antakya_Dionysus_and_Ariadne_mosaic_7507.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen on Sleep, Health and Heartbreak - Make it stand out Ariadne, sleeping, with Bacchus and Eros behind. Samandaĝ, mosaic, 2nd/3rd c. Image by Dosseman via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/5/29/whom-galen-isnt-writing-for monthly 0.5 2024-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1622289060999-UTQO1GMT0UMDPY2H8UMW/A_detail_from_part_of_an_early_4th_century_AD_mosaic_depicting_a_basket_of_snails_belonging_to_the_floor_of_the_Theodorian_transversal_hall%2C_Basilica_di_Santa_Maria_Assunta%2C_Aquileia%2C_Italy_%2821410819623%29.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen isn’t writing for… - Make it stand out Basket of snails. Mosaic, 4th century CE. Aquileia. Image by Carole Raddato via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/5/21/implausible-explanations-of-things-that-do-not-happen-galen-on-sabinus-on-first-times monthly 0.5 2021-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1621609579846-2O50LGPKKATM6B1B4OVH/1024px-Pompeii_-_Casa_del_Ristorante_4.jpg Ancient Medicine - “Implausible explanations of things that don’t happen”: Galen on Sabinus on first times - Make it stand out Scene from the Casa di Lupanare piccolo in Pompeii, fresco, first century CE. Image via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/5/14/aristotle-and-michael-of-ephesus-on-how-cicadas-sing monthly 0.5 2021-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1620935321868-LVH9DZN6TBM9S0WEJ79F/E_and_T.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on how cicadas sing - Make it stand out The goddess of dawn, Eos, pursuing Tithonos, who eventually becomes a cicada. Image via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/5/7/testimony monthly 0.5 2023-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1620385429355-M5LTWWSAK1FALBHSD9CA/Pages+from+Essai_historique_sur_la_ville_de_Ribemon.jpg Ancient Medicine - Testimony 19th century illustration depicting the murder of Jeanne Harvilliers. From Charles Gomart, Essai historique sur la ville de Ribemont et son canton, page 167 published in 1869. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/4/30/fire-and-water-jean-bodins-use-of-ancient-medicine-to-justify-the-murder-of-women-for-crimes-of-witchcraft monthly 0.5 2023-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1619808928045-W7HILDKMC3ZTUOJC5MUW/D%C3%A9monomanie_des_sorciers_Bodin.jpg Ancient Medicine - Fire and water: Jean Bodin’s use of ancient medicine to justify the murder of women for crimes of witchcraft Frontispiece to the 1580 edition of Jean Bodin’s On the Demon-Mania of Witches. Image via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/4/23/aristotles-library monthly 0.5 2023-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1619168569076-7JB1F6PTX9R9RTA8HPQU/MANNapoli_124545_plato%27s_academy_mosaic_enh_crop.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle's Library Plato’s Academy. Roman mosaic, 1st c. CE, house of T. Siminius Stephanus in Pompeii. Now at the Museo Nazionale Archeologico in Naples. Image by Jebulon via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/4/16/sleepwalking monthly 0.5 2021-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1617224440106-NQFJ3UAVJWJQ18TT5SJ8/Polychrome_mosaic_depicting_a_rooster%2C_unknown_origin%2C_National_Museum_of_Rome%2C_Baths_of_Diocletian_%2813330743125%29.jpg Ancient Medicine - Sleepwalking Rooster mosaic, Baths of Diocletian in Rome, 3rd/4th century. Image by Carole Raddato via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/4/9/easter-foods-to-avoid monthly 0.5 2021-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616505880602-GGU61A2E1KBEW6NKSSAX/IRHT_103068_2.jpg Ancient Medicine - Easter foods to have avoided Hare’s revenge. Detail from Verdun bibliothèque municipale ms. 0107, fol. 96v. Image via Verdun bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux, CC BY NC 3.0. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/4/2/easter-eggs monthly 0.5 2021-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616508851459-C3K77M6JZOZG6NIXV9YR/Still_life_with_eggs%2C_birds_and_bronze_dishes%2C_Pompeii.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink Still life with eggs, mid-first century CE, from the house of Julia Felix in Pompeii. Photo by Yann Forget via wikimedia commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616882013314-IYED1BL7IORBD23IR1I4/Screenshot+2021-03-27+225224.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink From the English Wikipedia entry for Giambattista della Porta, 27 March 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1617628242202-JLB65OM8BO6NG2HQ3TPL/20210402_164056155_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink Oak galls. Easter 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616722648233-9EZE24QTY6KKB90N9DXL/times.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink Old ways to play with your food. New York Times, 29 May 1965, page 14. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723844604-4UKNZG392AJQGU8LPGUF/20210325_134213564_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - The Ingredients Vinegar (~25%), Alum (KAl(SO4)2·12H2O), tannin powder, mortar and pestle, eggs, scale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723848283-2VJHJVDJOOAPUXTS8FCB/20210325_141653505_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Mixing the Ink and Inscribing I decided not to be too subtle with the designs. Here I’ve painted the shell with a 1:1:1 mix of tannin powder, alum and vinegar (15g each). I’m also preparing an alum+vinegar (1:1) control, which I painted on the back side of each egg. I also ran a hard-boiled egg control using both the alum+vinegar+tannin and the alum+vinegar mixtures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723851168-9JSMIMSOWUIC2004VS9A/20210325_142505448_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Control: Painting with Alum + Vinegar This one just has alum and vinegar. It dissolves the shell quite quickly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723854820-ETXCFMZ62W8ZRS0FMY1X/20210325_144430500_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Drying in the Sunshine The sun doesn’t come to Berlin until some time in May, so I’ve used a UV light at about 15cm for 30 minutes on each side of the eggs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723859417-UNXS4UQ89Y09P6VKBWBT/20210325_154950546_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Placing the Eggs in Sharp Brine I used 90g of sea salt and dissolved in tap water to make a final volume of 500ml. I’m not sure what a sharp brine is, but for now it just means ‘really salty’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723858606-II4EAB49D4EHJRLFQJ46/20210325_155722505_iOS+%282%29.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Re-Drying Here the eggs are drying before being boiled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723864979-QGJQ4LQG54W9IA6ODNUF/20210325_160158740_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Boiling the Eggs I boiled the two eggs that were painted while raw. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723868222-O3F5H90Q00XJ8VJHMGPU/20210325_160410860_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - The First Disappointment Here is the egg that was pre-boiled. This is the side that had the vinegar+alum+tannin mixture. Nothing came through. I feel like della Porta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723871453-EMOH9ET3VKP7WX6W9R58/20210325_162522686_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Inside of the Shell Here is the egg with the circle shape drawn on. No ink permeated at all through the shell. I read somewhere that eggs are treated with an oil prior to distribution. Maybe something is interfering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723875394-0YLMSDSF7B4MKRMQAJ1F/20210325_162627779_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Half Shell Here is a split shell showing quite clearly that this didn’t work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723880288-JAQHNG15OXD5GIS0H8ER/20210325_162849321_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Results Summary Here are the boiled eggs again. I got excited seeing that yellow on the one egg on the left, but it was just the yolk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723880880-A4NPFX8QCHYM91TV2E20/20210325_163238167_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Taking Control I painted some of the ink onto the cooked white just to see if it would stain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723889547-QJT7LEZ2XE5UM3WWZR21/20210325_163345593_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Letting it Dry I let it sit for about 5 minutes (left is the ink, right is alum and vinegar)… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616724696874-ERB4DUSBIZMSN35EUED7/20210325_163417537_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - Ink on Albumin …and after washing, only the mixture with tannin left a stain, as one might expect. This gives some reason to think the albumin won’t be affected if one uses only alum and vinegar, like the USDA says, unless there’s some reaction with uncooked eggs or iron pans or something else. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1616723889720-8CJFU1US0F7Q7QL798B0/20210325_164012265_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Eggs and Invisible Ink - To be continued I will have to try this again after I’ve collected some oak galls. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/3/26/cat-bites monthly 0.5 2021-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1615555012107-YCNA9GH5V0H0EKPL9DAG/Mosaic_Panther_100_BC_Museum_Delos_Zde13M154.jpg Ancient Medicine - Cat Bites A leopard mosaic from the House of Masks on Delos, c. 100 BCE. At the Museum of Delos. Image by Zde via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/3/19/the-antonine-plagues-long-peak monthly 0.5 2021-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1615283860852-220ET5T8AP6DKTUM4FXN/daphne.jpg Ancient Medicine - Herodian on the long peak of the Antonine Plague’s second wave Laurel, or δάφνη (daphne), from the Naples Dioscorides, a late 6th or early 7th century manuscript is closely related to the Vienna Dioscorides. I love this manuscript for all the synonyms it records. Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples, ex-Vind. gr. 1, fol. 65r. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/3/15/prescription-for-julius-caesar monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1615758754918-GXZ7QP5LVAITDFQICXPS/La_cl%C3%A9mence_de_C%C3%A9sar.jpg Ancient Medicine - A Prescription for Julius Caesar “ἀνερρίφθω κύβος” : Cicero defends Quintus Ligarius to Caesar, who acquits him. Ligarius would later join the conspiracy to assassinate him. Depicted here in La clémence de César by Abel de Pujol, 1808. Painting at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes, via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/3/12/socrates-meteorology-ii monthly 0.5 2021-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1614618190256-JYZLWX3EGA1CQULYVA71/web_BML_02EST01000F20BOR004512D41091F20B10D.jpg Ancient Medicine - Socrates’ Meteorology II Eau essence de vie et de lumière by René Bord (1930–2020). 1995. Intaglio on copper and aquatint. Image from Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/3/5/holding-it-in monthly 0.5 2021-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1614354897934-5PHV9QW2QKBTFNY9FWFT/luttrel+f.+62v.png Ancient Medicine - Holding it in Luttrell psalter. 14th century. British Library Add MS 42130, fol. 62v. Via the British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/2/26/aristotle-on-art-and-nature-tools monthly 0.5 2021-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1613506557815-B3MTDYX4VKQDONL3EE73/1024px-Frieze_Fabri_Tignarii_Musei_Capitolini_MC2743.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle on Art and Nature: Tools Relief featuring a carpenter’s workshop with tools. Flavian era, second half of first century. At the Capitoline Museums. Image by Marie-Lan Nguyen via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/2/19/a-mytilenean-peripatetic-school-galen-on-primigenes-of-mytilene monthly 0.5 2021-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1613153283044-R2LAPVTS6DSWIO8DVO9D/download+%283%29.png Ancient Medicine - A Mytilenean Peripatetic School? Galen on Primigenes of Mytilene A hermit at work on a manuscript, from the Estoire del St. Graal, mid 14th century. British Library Royal MS 14 E III, fol. 6v. Image via the British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/2/17/about-ashes monthly 0.5 2021-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1613151301275-F9P29J1LNOE2J3FC9U27/K040875+%281%29.jpg Ancient Medicine - About Ashes Manto, daughter of Tiresias, stirs a fire. French, mid-15th century. British Library ms. Royal 16 G V, fol. 33r https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/2/15/mardi-gras-with-galen-a-recipe-for-ancient-roman-pancakes monthly 0.5 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1612966530503-WK5T06PHIAF0S2A38H9O/DSC_1420.jpg Ancient Medicine - Mardi Gras with Galen: a recipe for ancient Roman pancakes Cake on a pedestal. First century fresco from the Villa Poppaea in Pompeii. Image via the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/2/12/aretaeus-on-love-sickness-and-melancholy monthly 0.5 2021-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1612893183913-04F07741SO5859USCYVV/SC228573.jpg Ancient Medicine - Love Doctor: Aretaeus on Love-Sickness and Melancholy Eros chasing a fawn. Lekythos or oil-flask, c. early 5th century, attributed to the Pan Painter. At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, image via their website. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/2/5/a-fragrant-perfume-from-the-dynameron-of-nikolaos-myrepsos-the-perfumer monthly 0.5 2021-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1612472610044-QQ75G1PQ32TIQOU5G7EA/Grec_2179_DIOSCORIDES_Auteur_btv1b525002505_45.jpg Ancient Medicine - A fragrant perfume from the Dynameron of Nikolaos Myrepsos (the Perfumer) Hyssop, one of the mystery ingredients in the perfume below. It is unclear what plant “hyssop” refers to. In her translation of Dioscorides, Beck proposes a kind of Satureja or savory. Image from a 9th-century uncial manuscript of Dioscorides, Parisinus Graecus 2179, fol. 19r via Gallica. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/1/29/galen-on-fear-depression-and-the-health-of-the-body-the-story-of-maiandros monthly 0.5 2021-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1611918015330-OAJSPF84V3MZHK65KZDI/apollo-black-bird-am-delphi-8140.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen on fear, depression and the health of the body: the story of Maiandros Apollo, pouring a libation, and a bird, perhaps an omen. The kylix of Apollo. Fifth century BCE. At the Delphi Archaeological Museum. Image by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/1/22/galen-on-the-death-of-aristotle-of-mytilene monthly 0.5 2021-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1611275096409-F7B5SISZP2OV6OA4MJQ9/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Galen on the Death of Aristotle of Mytilene Luttrell Psalter, mid-14th century. British Library Add MS 42130, fol. 57r. Image via the British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/1/9/dream-spells-dream-of-three-reeds monthly 0.5 2021-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1610155673485-TXOYYI0UUUAL2VIVNW26/000028.JPG Ancient Medicine - Dream Spells: Dream Spell of Three Reeds London, Ontario, Canada, sometime in 2011. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2021/1/8/recreating-democritus-party-tricks-ii-egg-yolks monthly 0.5 2021-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1610128467810-CFGODPI4CI2W3UVE7MNU/Layer+1.png Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks II: Egg Yolks London Papyrus 121, column 5. Possibly from Egyptian Thebes, dated to around the fourth century CE. From the British Library. The first line reads δημοκριτοῦ παίγνια: Democritus’ [Party] Tricks. Link here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1610130325714-X42D2IKXB5CGAG5DIW13/20201216_211421413_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks II: Egg Yolks Testing the egg yolk interpretation: egg yolks, red and white wine, brown and white eggs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1610129684518-L1YBI8DPHPAKEHW24G0C/20201216_212521604_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks II: Egg Yolks Egg yolks mixed with red and white wine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1610129844466-5HWJKADI4MDY8RLJNXTN/20201216_215535005_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks II: Egg Yolks Brown and white egg shells painted and smeared with wine and yolk mixtures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1610129916377-Q4R97AB9UXZ8B3UJEQA7/20201216_220842867_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks II: Egg Yolks Testing yolk vs saffron on cooked egg whites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1610129941364-Y0TSBG2XHTQIY32TQ266/20201216_221222995_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks II: Egg Yolks Painted and smeared on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1610130284743-4XR4CMWZJ8MQS9N9MN8I/Inked20201216_222424096_iOS_LI.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks II: Egg Yolks Red wine (top row) makes egg whites go blue, regardless of what is added. White wine with yolk (bottom right) does almost nothing. White wine with saffron (bottom left) turns egg white saffron or peach coloured. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1610130846717-3UMBIXRHY1GXBYRCW6P8/20201218_105723013_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks II: Egg Yolks A dinner party plate. Can you tell which of these is an egg? https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/12/31/aromatherapy-an-anonymous-author-on-medicinal-use-of-perfume-ingredients monthly 0.5 2021-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1609363922509-TK1G9LLTG0QI1G34GWMN/c13578-33a.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aromatherapy for Headaches and Heartache An image to end the year. From the Tractatus de Herbis, British Library ms. Sloane 4016, fol. 28r, produced in Lombardy c. 1440. A musk deer chewing off its testicles: “Castoreum alio no(m)i(n)e Asustilbar”. Remains unclear whether “castoreum” refers to the animal or the product derived from its musk glands. The scene arises, as the wiki points out, likely because of a story that beavers would castrate themselves to evade their hunters, who were after the castoreum. The illustrator’s reasons for confounding the beaver with the musk deer are elusive, and perhaps playful. The other name, Asustilbar, remains a mystery to me (more discussion of the mystery here). https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/12/30/dinner-advice-for-new-years-eve monthly 0.5 2021-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1609342251147-MVZNKVD582Z0373HH19E/merlin_158905416_bf569063-3099-471f-a3a6-c7fac625afa0-superJumbo.jpg Ancient Medicine - Dinner Advice for New Year’s Eve Facitis vobis suaviter, ego canto. Est ita valeas. “Make yourselves comfortable, I am going to sing.” “Certainly, go for it!” Fresco from the House of the Triclinium at Pompeii, now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. Image from the NYT. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/11/3/dream-spells-a-spell-from-pachrates-given-to-emperor-hadrian monthly 0.5 2022-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1604361006131-07XB7KNN6MWPJVO53L5V/63952b0ffe00d2ba0bb137402e8a9b9c.jpg Ancient Medicine - Dream Spells: a spell from Pachrates given to Emperor Hadrian Mouse eating a walnut. Time of Hardian. Vatican Museum. Image from here. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/10/19/aristophanes-and-plato-on-socrates-meteorology monthly 0.5 2020-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1603137277002-W9NJK2MVV7OM8X2PR2FZ/0_web_BML_02EST01000F20BOR004418D40151F20BO3D.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aristophanes and Plato on Socrates’ Meteorology Réalité de l'espace by René Bord. 1996. Intaglio on copper and aquatint. Image from Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/10/6/body-and-soul monthly 0.5 2022-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1601942069094-5SV43GDQVW4FYRZZO5XO/commodus-by-edwin-blashfield.jpg Ancient Medicine - Body and Soul The Emperor Commodus Leaving the Arena at the Head of the Gladiators by Edwin Howland Blashfield (not sure of the year). Sloane Collection, Hermitage Museum and Gardens, Norfolk, VA. Via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/9/25/river-tales monthly 0.5 2020-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1600985353409-SZKCM17C5M8U9NFXUEA2/EbrHmDpXQAIUadS.jpg Ancient Medicine - River Tales Dionysus riding a lion. 2nd century. Tunisia. Image by Gareth Harney via twitter. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/9/8/aromatherapy monthly 0.5 2021-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1599481477968-DZRXDXCQ1ERVAIFEIW3B/20200907_103039255_iOS.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aromatherapy in Ancient Egypt and Greece Ancient Egyptian Smell Kit that I just got today from my friend Dora Goldsmith at the Freie Universität Berlin. Scents of Ancient Egypt arranged by Dora with moss, petals of lily and magnificent blue lotus. You can find more about Dora and her work on her Academia.edu page. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/8/4/grasshoppers monthly 0.5 2020-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1596499597748-A8ZZEVOW89275T7BXUF3/Peristyle+fourth+style%5B2%5D.jpg Ancient Medicine - Grasshoppers Fresco from the Villa Poppaea at Torre Annunziata. 1st c. From the blog, Pat and Paul Go Travelling. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/7/26/aristotle-on-menstruating-women-and-mirrors monthly 0.5 2022-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1595786467728-X1ASIOIW5NIW6RQD9GBN/Fresco_showing_a_woman_looking_in_a_mirror_as_she_dresses_%28or_undresses%29_her_hair%2C_from_the_Villa_of_Arianna_at_Stabiae_%28Castellammare_di_Stabia%29%2C_Naples_National_A.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle on menstruating women and mirrors Fresco of a woman looking in a mirror, 1st c., Villa of Arianna at Stabiae (Castellammare di Stabia), Naples National Archaeological Museum. Image by Carole Raddato via Wikimedia commons, cc-by-sa-2.0. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/5/5/zosimus-on-the-demonic-origin-of-the-wicked-arts monthly 0.5 2020-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1588629911186-TJ220M6ISFSE0F1ZGDY1/Paradise_Lost_12.jpg Ancient Medicine - Zosimus on the Demonic Origin of the Wicked Arts Satan descending, one of Doré’s Paradise Lost engravings, via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/4/20/worse-than-the-worst-of-plagues-cassius-dio-on-commodus-reign-and-the-second-wave-of-the-antonine-plague monthly 0.5 2021-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1587397837781-NGFKT0GMQK5YHC3V151K/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Worse than the worst of plagues: Cassius Dio on Commodus’ reign and the second wave of the Antonine plague Commodus dressed up as Heracles. At the Capitoline Museum in Rome. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen (2006) via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/4/15/theophrastus-on-art-and-nature-ii-natural-and-artificial-ecology monthly 0.5 2021-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1586961230496-Z3MZ3Y0SL1VFXWGOZNT3/Vicia_ervilia_Sturm7.jpg Ancient Medicine - Theophrastus on Art and Nature II – Natural and Artificial Ecology Bitter vetch, vicia ervilia (L.) Willd. From Johann Georg Sturm’s Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen, 1796. Illustration by Jacob Sturm, via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/4/8/omens-like-these-plague-and-the-fall-of-the-republic monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1586207392471-WWCAF4JOETHLT7BQPESG/F60101-61b.jpg Ancient Medicine - “Omens like these” – plague and the fall of the Republic A crow. From the 13th century bestiary, Royal 12 C XIX, fol. 43r, via the British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/4/6/antisthenes-response-to-athenian-racism monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1586113771509-GVMLZYAONGZZCYW5RZ26/2080346499_622f71a52f_k.jpg Ancient Medicine - Antisthenes’ Response to Athenian Racism Busts at the British Museum: Socrates, Antisthenes, Chrysippus, Epicurus. Photo, ‘talking heads’, (c) Hannah Swithinbank, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, via her flickr. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/4/4/theophrastus-on-art-and-nature-i-pigments monthly 0.5 2020-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1586026725146-V3IC3T1JPXDT3ZASG9BR/00063365.jpg Ancient Medicine - Theophrastus on Art and Nature I – Pigments The gods in full colour. From left: Ares, Hera, Zeus, Athena, and Apollo. The illustration is from the Ambrosian Iliad (in Milan, at the Amrosian library, Cod. F. 205. P. Inf., fol. 20v), whose illustrations come from the 5th century. Incredible. Also, the figures were drawn naked at first, then had their clothes painted on. Image via the Warburg, which has all the images and is worth a look. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/4/2/i-suppose-the-same-thing-happened-in-foreign-countries-as-well-cassius-dio-on-the-plague-at-the-time-of-augustus monthly 0.5 2020-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1585855697457-1U98VWP6B4UUQPTKF560/WOA_IMAGE_1.jpg Ancient Medicine - “I suppose the same thing happened in foreign countries as well...” Cassius Dio on the Plague at the time of Augustus Maecenas Presenting the Liberal Arts to Emperor Augustus, by Tiepolo around 1743. Image from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/4/1/whoever-wants-to-become-a-good-person-some-advice-from-galen monthly 0.5 2020-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1585739301394-EALVPTR43CNM0WFDTBX4/image-asset.png Ancient Medicine - “Whoever wants to become a good person” – some advice from Galen You’ve got something there. BL Add. ms. 62925, fol. 62r via the British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/3/31/partying-a-neglected-branch-of-moral-philosophy monthly 0.5 2020-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1585611772655-AOTF1OR4T02TF6BHP35R/Annotation+2020-03-31+013721.png Ancient Medicine - Partying: a neglected branch of moral philosophy Social distancing in the Rutland Psalter. British Library Add. MS 62925, fol. 43v. via the British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/3/23/those-who-couldnt-be-cured-galen-on-the-armenian-bole-and-the-great-plague monthly 0.5 2023-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1585002265734-XXKUGVT3GMPJHPC1VT6V/K060966.jpg Ancient Medicine - “Those who couldn't be cured” – Galen on the Armenian Bolus and the Great Plague A man harvesting Armenian bolus. Illumination of an entry in Tractatus de herbis, attributed to Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis. A late 13th century ms. now at the British Library: Egerton 747 f. 12v. via the BL site. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/3/21/aristotle-on-friendship monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1584808570793-PLWOT82S20EA5DHQ8V75/MANNapoli_124545_plato%27s_academy_mosaic.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle on the Difficulty of Keeping Friends Close Mosaic featuring Plato’s Academy, 1st century BCE, from the house of T. Siminius Stephanus of Pompeii. Photo by Jebulon via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/3/20/sacrifices-plato-on-diotima-and-the-plague-of-athens monthly 0.5 2020-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1584738809255-2YLFI2VSUJRJHIAHTE2S/717px-Simmler-Deotyma.jpg Ancient Medicine - Sacrifices – Plato on Diotima and the Plague of Athens Diotima by Józef Simmler. Scanned from the album Malarstwo Polskie w zbiorach za granicą by Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Wydawnictwo Kluszczyński, 2003. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/2/23/more-from-herodotus-and-plato-on-providential-ecology monthly 0.5 2024-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1582457092886-9RGDOSARAFRKZBDSGFG3/Nehushtan-Manuscript-Illustration.jpg Ancient Medicine - More on Providential Ecology from Herodotus and Plato Moses’ fiery, winged serpent. Image from here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1582456976765-DUM2FOQMPXL3WKGYEWOU/gettyimages-dv031010-2048x2048.jpg Ancient Medicine - More on Providential Ecology from Herodotus and Plato Via getty images https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/2/14/pseudo-galen-what-is-a-soul-and-what-is-a-body monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1581686510043-DL6D771XCSXTABL59Y64/Nicholson+Museum+NM98_150+olpe+black+psyche.png Ancient Medicine - Pseudo-Galen, what is a soul and what is a body? Winged psyche and corpse on a wine jug. Late sixth century. Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney. Image via this article at the Panoply Vase Animation Project. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/2/12/plato-on-providence-from-the-laws monthly 0.5 2020-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1581455379669-XWXHCZNN1GCGPSMYPNX0/0_web_F20BOR004454.jpg Ancient Medicine - Plato on Providence in Laws X Le destin by René Bord. 1990. Soft ground etching and aquatint. Image from Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/2/6/reading-with-galen monthly 0.5 2020-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1580922139334-BQYY0I5OPEYQ7RP52NPV/reading.jpg Ancient Medicine - Reading with Galen: when good authors say false things Detail of a monk working on a manuscript. BL Royal MS 14 E III, fol. 6v. Via the British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/2/1/before-we-begin-aetius-of-amidas-medical-books monthly 0.5 2023-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1580315165726-CT7XFSL8KIW82EZ0N4M2/image-asset.png Ancient Medicine - Before we begin: Aetius of Amida’s Medical Books Aetius of Amida’s Medical Books. From a slightly eaten 12th century Florentine manuscript, Laur. Plut. 75.20, fol 5v. Via the BML. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1580312831814-KC9S0D9WKSE2IRF1NNIT/Aetius.png Ancient Medicine - Before we begin: Aetius of Amida’s Medical Books Cod. Par. suppl. gr. 1240, fol. 5r https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1580312955196-7IN10M22WBK6B40Q29B7/Grec_2193_AETIUS_Amidenus_btv1b10723339n_7.jpg Ancient Medicine - Before we begin: Aetius of Amida’s Medical Books Cod. Par. gr. 2193, fol. 1r https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/1/29/a-prayer-to-isis monthly 0.5 2021-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1580300617319-IZ2NON66FPHEA8N2OLPS/grabowsee.jpg Ancient Medicine - A Prayer to Isis Grabowsee, August 2019 https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/1/24/forever-young monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1579804417358-EH6485656GT94MZCW39V/Fontaine_de_jouvence_-_De_Sphaera_-_Biblioteca_Estense_lat209_-_f10r.jpg Ancient Medicine - Forever Young Venus’ fountain full of youth. From an illuminated copy of De Sphaera, ms. Bibliotec Estense Universitaria alfa.x.2.14 fol. 10r. CC-3.0-BY-NC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1579800593688-T8GOZ9DGWQS1H9D7CC12/theoharides+note.jpg.png Ancient Medicine - Forever Young https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/1/20/conspiracy-theories monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1579481005099-EL17H906VSE92KTYDBAO/MS3632_0070a.jpg Ancient Medicine - Conspiracy Theories Hippocrates, gaining the respect of the youth. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/1/14/nicknames monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578941720455-8KKX3KH6VIJNUKDTB9U6/F._21r._Wyvern.jpg Ancient Medicine - Nicknames A Wyvern, in the Laws of Hywel Dda, NLW MS. 20143A fol. 21r, ca.1350. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/1/8/recreating-democritus-party-tricks monthly 0.5 2021-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578340742000-4JOP33GQWHMGM8E0ODTS/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks Fresco at the house of Julia Felix in Pompeii, 60s CE. Peaches, apparently unripe, on the branch and cut to expose the stone, with water jar (left); dried figs and dates on a silver tray, with a glass of wine (centre); peaches, more ripe-looking, on the branch and cut to expose the stone (right). Image from Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli via here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578342264840-B64Z5AIUC7UWCIFA3B2G/still+life+1.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks Democritean still life: boiled eggs coated with saffron-infused white wine, cut to resemble peaches (with abnormally large stones). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578341114318-O4Y1AZRKLVDDUMHAEZ4W/shell+on.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks First attempt at the replication. White-shelled eggs with (1) saffron and red wine (left) and (2) saffron and white wine (right). The brown eggs (not pictured) showed no appreciable colour change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578358627948-TQCCILGL2VHGXNG9N8UA/detail2.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks Peaches, detail, showing characteristic long, slender leaves (left panel of those pictured at the top of the post). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578502734294-10WCHHPJEB7W3D6W3XL8/key.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks Dyed eggs sliced with shells on to look like apple slices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578341255024-GV5G3QIEG13UJE7AI94I/Yellow-Peach-Canned-Sliced-Peach.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks Peach slices, canned. Image from here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578341237378-R00DC25NQPQDX7LVYRA4/detail.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks Boiled egg-white, soaked in white wine infused with saffron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578340973627-YZDDUDTMRBZAXRAYIH93/ingredients.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578341041035-7R24F41IMRJVE95JAGN7/setup.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks 1. Adding wine to the saffron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578341078588-EPUFC51G9243QIUE6R1G/dyes.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks 2. Letting the saffron soak in the wine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578341099344-FENN6K8US4Y0H4520W8B/brushing.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks 3. Failed experiment: brushing on the saffron mixture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578342546915-QS2QI8G0MZURCBV00P22/key.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks 4. Sliced egg with shell, resembling white-fleshed quince slices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578341216603-5RJWYKYVSMSPOMJFHMLL/apple+prep.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks 5. Rolling eggs, shelled, in the wine and saffron mixture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578342340672-8EFVWOBVNUOCR0LDGL63/one+apple.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks 6. Finished product: sliced, with yolk dimpled to look like a peach pit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1578342082094-OOW5XXX8ZH79OQ9BM08Z/still+life+2.jpg Ancient Medicine - Recreating Democritus’ Party Tricks https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/12/9/shopping-with-galen-and-a-bit-on-the-epistemology-of-drugs monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1575920254357-GO71BASWKAHSEBJN430E/Fresco_from_the_House_of_Julia_Felix%2C_Pompeii_depicting_scenes_from_the_Forum_market.jpg Ancient Medicine - Shopping with Galen (and a bit on the epistemology of drugs) Fresco of a Roman market, from the house of Julia Felix in Pompeii. Photo by Wmpearl, via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/11/18/more-dream-spells monthly 0.5 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1574040740553-U1LR6MDNCDVRI2JJTZTG/DP-14246-002.jpg Ancient Medicine - More dream spells A red jasper hippo from between 1550 and 1070 BCE. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain via the Met website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1574040883788-NMCIVJ2TXQPSK49IR4L7/Annotation+2019-11-18+023424.png Ancient Medicine - More dream spells https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/11/13/before-we-begin-oribasius monthly 0.5 2023-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1573494000197-CF10YH4FHU20PKU0V0BA/oribaisus+moscow.png Ancient Medicine - Before we begin: Oribasius’ Medical Collections First page from the 1808 Moscow edition of Oribasius’ Medical Collections. Image from scan at Medic@ at BIU Santé. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/10/31/galen-rants-against-chrysippus-because-hes-a-immigrant-and-accuses-him-of-solecising monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1572562272098-2UVPBGIR0R03R0NYFGEQ/748px-Chrysippus_of_Soli_Louvre_Ma326.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen rants against Chrysippus because he’s a immigrant Chrysippus. Roman copy of a Hellenistic original. At the Louvre. via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/10/27/alternative-medicine-or-three-conversions monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1572340436345-0AK4OJBOMT58Z369F9O1/32rev.jpg Ancient Medicine - Alternative Medicine (or: Three Conversions) Protective amulet. From the University of Michigan Classics Department online exhibition: Traditions of Magic in Late Antiquity. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/10/4/dream-spells monthly 0.5 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1570821922883-S15XKFQE0D6Z6Y8P3ORK/thoth+hermes.jpg Ancient Medicine - Dream spells Hermes and an Ibis on a magic charm. Item CBd-437 at the Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database (2010-), developed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, editor-in-chief: Á. M. Nagy. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/9/25/why-you-shouldnt-invite-democrtius-to-your-dinner-party monthly 0.5 2021-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1569419207426-2TGURKQZ1US9MPEURA7C/800px-Jose_de_Ribera_03.jpg Ancient Medicine - Why you probably shouldn’t invite Democritus to your dinner party Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher. One of Ribera’s from around 1635 in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton House. via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/9/11/some-fumigations-for-lizards-snakes-and-scorpions monthly 0.5 2021-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1568209196687-74VAU3V2HXLZISWN53DR/c13579-53a.jpg Ancient Medicine - Some fumigations for lizards, snakes and scorpions Deer and snake. From this 15th century herbal: British Library, Sloane ms. 4016, fol. 30v. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1568801184255-UDBKSB9H6Z4XYY3A103D/Vat.gr.284_0569_fa_0279r_m.jpg Ancient Medicine - Some fumigations for lizards, snakes and scorpions https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/9/9/almost-healthy monthly 0.5 2020-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1567981549058-68D1OMTR3Q145DUN14K2/Val%C3%A8re_Maxime_Dits_et_faits_%5B...%5DValerius_Maximus_btv1b55007803g_834.jpg Ancient Medicine - Almost Healthy Bath house scene from MS Arsenal 5196, fol. 372r, digitized by the BNF at Gallica. A nice description. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/8/21/marcellus-sideta-on-lycanthropy-the-first-werewolves monthly 0.5 2020-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1566425466265-S6NWYKYFJLHBMA17Y8HB/The_Werewolves_from_The_Book_of_Werewolves_%281865%29.jpg Ancient Medicine - Marcellus Sideta On Lycanthropy. A translation of the first account of werewolves. Frontispiece from Sabine Baring-Gould’s 1865 The Book of Werewolves. Image via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/6/16/some-texts-on-holunder monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1560682584646-ZOUMQ0THM5NMTQESDA1W/TREES_08.jpg Ancient Medicine - Elderflower Cordial One of Cicely Mary Barker’s illustrations of tree fairies. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/5/20/those-who-sleep-among-the-heroes-of-sardinia-aristotle-on-time-and-memory monthly 0.5 2025-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1558146198434-N8VY14R2WVXWGI0VYK5W/Mosaics%2C_Worcester_Art_Museum_-_IMG_7575.png Ancient Medicine - ‘Who slept among the heroes of Sardinia’ — Aristotle on time and memory “Lang ist Die Zeit, es ereignet sich aber Das Wahre.“ Mnemosyne and family, Antioch mosaic at the Worcester art museum in Massachusetts via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/5/18/aristotle-and-solon-on-acting-our-natural-age monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1558142447127-HCQ7EAR1ER2UUHV92VVP/304687001.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle and Solon on acting our natural age The ten ages of a human being + some animals. Anonymous woodcut likely from Augsburg, 1482. From the British Museum. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/10/spontaneous-generation-iii-galen-and-alexander-on-why-the-world-soul-doesnt-make-mosquitos monthly 0.5 2020-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1554933760126-DZT1O5AN6YV5GMD45YXL/nlm_nlmuid-101435691-img.jpg Ancient Medicine - Spontaneous Generation: Galen and Alexander against the Platonists on why the world soul doesn’t make mosquitos Integrae Naturae Speculum, Artisque imago. From Robert Fludd’s Utriusque cosmi majoris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia 1617. Image from the NIH archives. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/5/1/a-sweet-smelling-summer-time-deodorant-from-crito monthly 0.5 2020-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1555615840820-MF03YVRIZCX922V0MXFU/Horae_ad_usum_Parisiensem_dites_%5B...%5DTestard_Robinet_btv1b8432895r_14.jpg Ancient Medicine - A sweet-smelling, summer-time deodorant from Crito The month of April. From the Horae ad usum Parisiensem, ms. Par. Lat. 1173, f.2v. Image at the BNF here. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/30/spells-for-walpurgisnacht-apuleius-and-plato-on-why-we-should-all-learn-magic monthly 0.5 2022-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1556490756661-8N0EOSAXP7XP08CRNXXB/ClavisArtis.MS.Verginelli-Rota.V3.000.jpg Ancient Medicine - Spells for Walpurgisnacht: Apuleius and Plato on why we should learn magic Zoroaster Clavis Artis (1738). MS. Verginelli-Rota, Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, vol. 3, p. 1r. Via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/10/spontaneous-generation-ii monthly 0.5 2019-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1554932726230-83ZF4O813QM0AKABXJZ2/00267401.jpg Ancient Medicine - Spontaneous Generation: Aristotle on why life is not decay Joris Hoefnagel (Flemish / Hungarian, 1542 - 1600) Scorpionfly, Insect, Lizard, and Insect Larva, 1561 - 1562; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 20, fol. 108. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/25/michael-of-ephesus-talks-about-his-colleagues-throws-some-shade monthly 0.5 2019-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1555062507201-ZJ5FNR69ZF40S6BYGTOV/st+cuthbert.png Ancient Medicine - “Don’t get me wrong, I respect them…” — Michael of Ephesus on his colleagues From the Life of St. Cuthbert. British Library, Yates Thompson ms. 26, f. 35v. From the British Library digitized mss. collection. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/23/cures-from-poop monthly 0.5 2020-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1555274018862-EIJYQDELRFXQ1ZQPOO1V/Medieval-Medical-Books.jpg Ancient Medicine - Just some drugs made out of poop Image from here. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/10/spontaneous-generation-i monthly 0.5 2019-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1554850467137-67B008398ODP07EQNGU7/bagworm+moth.jpg Ancient Medicine - Spontaneous Generation: fire animals, animals that look like twigs, and mosquitos Psychidae or bagworm moth. Print by Claus Caspari, Mitteleuropaische Insekten, 1956. Grabbed from this etsy page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1555031340949-IHX5NFY19DP5NPMXS0RQ/Family_Psychidae444.jpg Ancient Medicine - Spontaneous Generation: fire animals, animals that look like twigs, and mosquitos https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/20/contained-within-the-limits-of-the-stars-the-cycles-of-our-common-matter monthly 0.5 2020-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1555634254536-0HA97TTIKA10ZXWLE3FF/W171_000023_sap.jpg Ancient Medicine - Contained within the limits of the stars: the cycles of our common matter The seven classical planets, from top: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon. From Walters Ms. W. 171, 15th century. Image from the Digital Walters. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/11/dialectic-and-therapy monthly 0.5 2019-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1555004341651-B6MLSJ7P9KTN7M7FXMI8/Busto_maschile1.jpg Ancient Medicine - Dionysius of Aegea’s Diktyaka: a guide to the major physiological questions of late antique medicine Checking notes. Fresco at the Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli. Image by Olivierw via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/11/sources-for-the-pneumatist-school monthly 0.5 2019-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1555002998095-VTRH4UJ9OPC3ZNYPFLKL/MS3632_06962.png Ancient Medicine - Sources for the Pneumatist School https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/10/an-encyclopedia-of-spontaneous-generation monthly 0.5 2019-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1554932060687-BV799RIUTOE6XFVVGKR7/Joris_and_Jacob_Hoefnagel_-_Allegory_on_Life_and_Death.jpg Ancient Medicine - The Spontaneously Generated Animals of Aristotle’s Historia Animalium Allegory on Life and Death, attributed to Jacob Hoefnagel. 1598. Image via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/4/what-is-a-heart monthly 0.5 2020-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1554410796466-J9FVZETENMY7CO3X7WSD/heart.jpg Ancient Medicine - Pseudo-Galen, what is a heart? 1523 woodcut depicting the heart. In Berengario’s Isagogae breves perlucidae ac uberrimae in anatomiam humani corporis, f. 32v. Image over here at BIU Santé. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/5/sources-for-the-pneumatist-school-of-medicine monthly 0.5 2019-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1555030077783-82PI96CQQ2REYTMTLYWH/MS3632_02632.png Ancient Medicine - Sources for the Pneumatist School of Medicine https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/4/philosophers-and-doctors-on-nature-art-and-movement monthly 0.5 2019-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1554544913023-CJRLLAPRGPGBP8Z86ME4/0_web_BML_02EST01000F20BOR004518D41151F20B11A.jpg Ancient Medicine - Pseudo-Galen, what is nature? Genèse de l'énergie by René Bord. 1995. Soft ground etching and aquatint. Image from Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/4/4/theophrastus-on-why-spring-is-obviously-good monthly 0.5 2019-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1554460702201-V7J6E4WZ7Y7F4BGFL2GO/Anonyme_De_ponderibus_medicinalibus_%283r%29_%5B...%5DPseudo-Hippocrates_Auteur_btv1b84262821.JPEG Ancient Medicine - Theophrastus, what is the best season for growing things? Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis in Cod. Par. Lat. 6862 (9th century). https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/3/26/aristotle-on-ctesias-on-the-manticore-and-unicorn monthly 0.5 2021-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1553638048514-7Y5HY77IHAW3CVGY7NLN/Unicorn._Wellcome_L0001820.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle on Ctesias on the Manticore and Unicorn From Edward Topsell’s 1607 The Historie of foure-footed beastes, London. (link is to 1658 printing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1553639572850-SJNMR3RSR7MEXDD77AWF/Manticore+-+MS+Bod+764.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle on Ctesias on the Manticore and Unicorn At the Bodleian in Oxford. MS. Bodley 764, Folio 25r 13th century. This post is an excuse to put up pictures from this manuscript. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1553641758293-FNV9Z666ZH8WF4BSZTY3/unicorn.png Ancient Medicine - Aristotle on Ctesias on the Manticore and Unicorn At the Bodleian in Oxford. MS. Bodley 764, Folio 22r https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/3/22/how-to-market-soap-in-antiquity monthly 0.5 2022-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1553223335969-1VJVSUTF1MLUSKULDAO7/102138_cleopatra.jpg Ancient Medicine - How to market soap in antiquity Elizabeth Taylor having a bath in a movie. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/3/21/plato-on-providential-ecology monthly 0.5 2020-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1553221222348-46SDUKA1RRIN0KI82RI3/add_ms_54180_f188ved.jpg Ancient Medicine - Plato on Providential Ecology “Sobriety and Gluttony”, from the British Library ms. add. 54180, f. 188v: https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/3/22/things-aristotle-said-part-ii monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1553216742167-EC916XW3FO2LXDUKDOGU/%5BRecueil_Portraits_d%27Aristote%5D__btv1b103357642_46.jpg Ancient Medicine - ‘I wasn’t paying attention’ - Things Aristotle said, part II From a book of portraits of Aristotle at the BNF. Available here. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/3/20/aphrodite-kallipygos monthly 0.5 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1553121063209-NEM7C0C2IO592M7E3DGF/IMG_4373-Edit.jpg Ancient Medicine - Aphrodite Kallipygos The Capitoline Venus, sometime last September. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/3/20/endings monthly 0.5 2020-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1553048554816-N1HW6GC6GDEECNYP8ELR/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Endings Eclatement d'une étoile by René Bord. Image from the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1553123756625-2L2RBP1BSBZUEMDVFUPI/Platon_%28A%29__btv1b8419248n_311.jpg Ancient Medicine - Endings https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/3/20/let-him-whip-me-when-im-not-around-things-aristotle-said-i monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1553046231392-5XEW9T90F4M1KFWAM9H2/aristotle%27s+balls.png Ancient Medicine - "Let him whip me when I'm not around" - Things Aristotle said, part I A different side of Aristotle. Image from Bibliothèque nationale de France. Public domain. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2019/3/14/pseudo-alexander-on-why-oil-doesnt-mix-with-water-and-why-our-soul-doesnt-mix-with-our-body monthly 0.5 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1552526197670-DLX87H3W1YJFFIVAO15U/bladdms37049.jpg Ancient Medicine - Pseudo-Alexander on why oil doesn't mix with water, how the soul is joined to the body, and why the head is like a little heaven “A dysputaciou[n] betwyx þ[e] saulee and þe body whe[n] it is past oute of þe body”. BL Add MS 37049 f. 81r. At the British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/12/18/providential-ecology-in-herodotus-and-aristotle monthly 0.5 2020-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1545164602668-TK57GXW61D7Z8X46Q4MQ/image-asset.png Ancient Medicine - Providential Ecology in Herodotus and Aristotle Hunting Rabbits. From the Decretals of Gregory IX. Early 14th C. British Library Royal MS 10 E IV. Copyright British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/5/26/stobaeus-discussion-of-galen-on-hippocrates-a-fragment-of-antyllus-or-antyllus-and-the-pneumatist-school monthly 0.5 2021-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1527364289948-P9UBJWTU9DMX1APIHXPX/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Galen on Hippocrates in Stobaeus: a fragment of Antyllus? or, Antyllus and the Pneumatist School Galen and Hippocrates... photo from Nina Aldin Thune via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/16/pharmacy-and-prophecy-apollonius-and-iarchas-talk-about-divination-as-a-safe-way-to-learn-about-drugs monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1523833424377-K70UTESDF9J8MRUZHWDS/Apollo_Chiron_Asclepios_MAN_Napoli_Inv8846.png Ancient Medicine - Prophecy and Pharmacy: Apollonius and Iarchas talk about divination as a safe way to learn about drugs Apollo on the left, Asclepius on the right, Chiron, the friendly centaur, in the middle - they're all are associated with medicine and prophecy. This painting goes much deeper into the mythology than the discussion below, although they're roughly contemporary. The fresco is in Naples at the National Archaeological Museum. Photo was taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen, via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/11/music-therapy monthly 0.5 2018-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1523463790633-K76CQNR8IMOK2C79IL67/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - An ancient debate on music therapy Boy playing the flute and curing a dolphin. Mid-4th century, Etruria. At the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen, via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/10/bullshit-biology-some-ancient-sources-on-the-scarab-beetle monthly 0.5 2018-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1523317201569-YAIFIWHFB8VGXVB9GODA/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Bullshit biology: some ancient sources on the scarab beetle This image via wikimedia commons: "Nun, god of the waters of chaos, lifts the barque of the sun god Ra (represented by both the scarab and the sun disk) into the sky at the beginning of time." From the Book of the Dead of Anhai, ~1050 BCE. The other sun-god, Khepri, is also a god of creation, connected closely with the sun, and represented by the scarab - a dung beetle. The Walters' in Baltimore has a nice scarab collection online. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/7/know-your-sorcerer-the-suda-on-different-kinds-of-magic monthly 0.5 2023-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1523054583433-540W8335XKT1NK0YPHJV/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Know your sorcerer: the Suda on different kinds of magic Dioscorides of Samos' mosaic depiction of a play involving two women paying a visit to a witch or diviner. Second century. The mosaic was found in the Villa del Cicerone in Pompeii, and is now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. via Wikimedia. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/7/galen-on-what-to-do-with-a-patient-who-thinks-the-sky-will-fall monthly 0.5 2023-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1523052075768-2195VRK2EB2HBPF1L4U7/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Galen on what to do with a patient who thinks the sky will fall Atlas, shrugging, with his brother. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/6/heraclides-of-pontus-on-the-joy-of-madness monthly 0.5 2023-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1523028101301-9CQPADDCBEKGYVGZFDME/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Heraclides of Pontus on the joy of madness Watching the ships at the Piraeus. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/5/bring-down-the-moon-hide-it-in-a-mirror-on-thessalian-medicine-women monthly 0.5 2020-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1522948056531-ZNXXZRP4S7YDJUQYSK0U/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Draw down the moon, hide it in a mirror. On Thessalian medicine women From Christine de Pizan's Le livre du chemin de long estude. Harley MS 4431, f. 189v. Images of the ms. are here. Copyright 2005 British Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/4/two-ways-to-talk-about-eggs monthly 0.5 2022-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1664533062654-RN125DZ6MYFQ2QFL5R9I/Maon_Mosaic_Hen.jpg Ancient Medicine - Two ways to talk about eggs Detail of the Maon synagogue mosaic depicting a hen and an egg. Via wikimedia commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1522799012183-6UZ9DR3HKZ5EAL9QXITO/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Two ways to talk about eggs Eggs the right way, soft boiled and in cups. Detail from a 3rd century mosaic at the Hatay Archaeological Museum in Antakya, Turkey. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/3/a-metaphor-for-easter monthly 0.5 2020-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1522772823659-UO7RA0YNC6U2UA8NZM71/image-asset.gif Ancient Medicine - A Metaphor for Easter The Spring fresco. Thera, 16th cent. BCE (!!). Picture is from the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. CC BY-NC-DC. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/1/more-on-philosophers-and-magic-and-anaxagoras-on-teaching-philosophy-to-cattle monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1522544299605-3E1YMQ0M6GI3AH96TASM/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - More on philosophers and magic, and Anaxagoras on teaching philosophy to cattle Old man of the sea: Apollonius of Tyana. Line engraving by F. Cleyn, 1659. Reproduction from The Wellcome Trust, via Wikimedia Commons. CCBY4.0. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/3/29/a-path-home-star-men-and-the-origins-of-astronomy monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1522344989569-ZU3ES267KL1G0B74K9NS/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - A path home, star men, and the origins of astronomy https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/3/28/how-to-live-a-long-life-learn-magic-or-get-some-exercise monthly 0.5 2021-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1522243285972-F6PSLJ2AT08RPAFMBMJS/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - How to live a long life: learn magic or get some exercise Xenophon and Dorothy, chatting about discus. 6th century. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/3/19/galens-advice-on-how-to-never-get-sick-hint-read-my-books monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1521477411315-6GZPQQS5A2VMKVQIHKGN/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Galen's advice on how to never get sick ("read my books and pay attention") "Galen's Conversion", a motif in the late 18th century. This one is by John Raphael Smith, 1774. It's at the British Museum. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/3/15/prescription-for-julius-caesar monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1521129398344-JAYTXX9GB8TVZKFKPY9G/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Julius Caesar's Prescription iacta alea esto https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/3/13/hucksters monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1520982836911-0VEJYF41GA477HNB154V/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Pedlars and Peddlers, Hucksters and Trash-talkers The Trinket Seller. William Strang. 1883. Etching and drypoint. From the British Museum: "To left, a trinket seller kneels to right with an open box of his wares by his side; a woman is bending towards him and he is placing a necklace over her head. A group of potential customers in rustic dress look on." CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/3/11/aristotles-lost-book-on-magic monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1520783807657-97ZZXZELUKRQKF7T11QE/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle's Lost Book On Magic This illustration is from the Clavis Artis, a German alchemical text attributed to Zoroaster. Clavis Artis, Ms-2-27, Biblioteca Civica Hortis, Trieste, vol. 2, pag. 182. On the manuscript and its provenance, see the Italian wiki. Image from wikimedia commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1520783585402-955SJHCRLHGTYGHK917V/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Aristotle's Lost Book On Magic Illustration of (a somewhat Christian?) Zoroaster riding the back of a dragon. Zoroaster was associated with the arts of magic and astrology already in antiquity. This illustration is from the Clavis Artis, vol. 1, the Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma. On the manuscript and its provenance, see the Italian wiki. Image source here. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/3/11/animal-magic monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1520730322070-OJR1JXANBQKIMEJH1MDP/BYVANCKB_mimi_ka16_059v_min_a1.jpg Ancient Medicine - Animal Magic An illustration of a hyena that is not eating a human corpse (they almost always are eating dead people in medieval bestiaries). The bestiary is Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme. It's in ms. The Hague, KB, KA 16, f. 59v. (C) Koninklijke Bibliotheek National Library of the Netherlands. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/3/7/plums-briefly monthly 0.5 2022-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1664533395937-5W9SO75VJIZADSPP5RGX/House_of_Julia_Felix_still_life_wine_and_fruit.jpg Ancient Medicine - Plum, crimson, vermilion, scarlet Still life from the House of Julia Felix, Pompeii. At the Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/2/23/michael-of-ephesus-on-providence-and-good-behaviour monthly 0.5 2020-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1519762489152-YV921IZMQGF40L6U4A43/nature+birds+detail.jpg Ancient Medicine - Michael of Ephesus on providence and good behaviour A detail from an illumination showing the personification of nature making birds, animals, and people. MS. Ludwig XV 7, fol. 121v. Early 15th Century (probably). The manuscript is at the Getty. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/2/28/soda-and-onions monthly 0.5 2022-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1664534274488-25BB2M3PRVE0DBKXNXY1/Ptolemaic_roundel_from_a_mosaic_floor_decorated_with_a_dog_and_a_gilded_askos%2C_from_Alexandria%2C_Egypt%2C_c._200-150_BC.jpg Ancient Medicine - Soda and onions - Make it stand out Ptolemaic mosaic from Hellenistic Egypt, 200 - 150 BCE. Via wikimedia commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/2/26/when-the-soul-is-inflamed-part-ii monthly 0.5 2021-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1519649997142-0AVUZO6OQFZ13WTOJ8S8/160317_05_nutrition.png Ancient Medicine - "When the soul is inflamed", part II Vital heat / nutrition. The illustration is one of several by Christoph Geiger, created for the exhibition "The Soul is an Octopus" curated by Uta Kornmeier and now on display at the Museum of Psychiatry, Christophsbad Hospital, in Göppingen. The show there runs until 15. July 2018. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/2/27/mushrooms monthly 0.5 2022-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1664534796577-Q4GMJRUOT9JYUEIY3YD5/4463.jpg Ancient Medicine - The double difference of mushrooms - Make it stand out Roman floor mosaic, 4th century CE, Vatican museums. Via worldhistory.org. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/2/23/on-aetius-of-amida-notes-from-cambridge monthly 0.5 2023-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1519626036131-C2JP8WJ6UNCSPDURGRPK/crocus.jpg Ancient Medicine - Notes from Cambridge on Amber and Land Crocodiles Amber coloured crocuses behind King's College earlier today. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/2/17/whenthesoulisinflamedi monthly 0.5 2021-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1518887686006-R1QLZOBAZYWCJPXN76RA/seele_03_Substances.jpg Ancient Medicine - "When the soul is inflamed", part I Vital spirits. The illustration is one of several by Christoph Geiger, created for the exhibition "The Soul is an Octopus" curated by Uta Kornmeier and now on display at the Museum of Psychiatry, Christophsbad Hospital, in Göppingen. The show there runs until 15. July 2018. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/2/11/galen-on-jargon-and-bad-style monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1518311463565-H12MMY6K8JRDVV5JRG57/Il+satiro+della+Doppia+alcova+nuziale+dopo+i+restauri.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen on jargon and bad style https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/2/8/galen-on-bad-taste monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1518113875698-4ELMVMGCJ1703Q5LPIEQ/MS3632_0070.jpg Ancient Medicine - Galen on how to avoid kakozelia and sound like Hippocrates Hippocrates and his fan club https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/2/8/advice-for-having-children monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1518111214410-GBEYQPB1BN1IK3SMJESI/20468878840_3328c23163_o.jpg Ancient Medicine - Advice for having children Frontispiece to an 1820s edition of 'Aristotle's Masterpiece', a spurious 17th century sex manual, brilliantly covered here by Mary Fissell. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2017/3/26/athenaeus-of-attalia-advice-about-old-age monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1490537189964-OZ8TK6YRI7OG452U1P05/786px-D%C3%BCrer-Hieronymus-im-Geh%C3%A4us.jpg Ancient Medicine - Athenaeus of Attalia's Advice on Old Age Dürer's 1514 engraving of St. Jerome in his study: Hieronymus im Gehäus, copyright SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2017/3/9/habituation-and-the-health-of-mind-and-body monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1489016422578-V27PTGPTZTOM6JMELY1I/palaestra.png Ancient Medicine - Habituation and the health of mind and body Wrestlers training. Scene depicted on the marble base of a funerary kouros (naked youth), found in Athens, c. 510-500 BC. From the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2017/2/6/galen-strabo-dead-sea monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1488219510261-KHA2XZVC59P6BKX47EI0/32343935660_1e0646b35f_k.jpg Ancient Medicine - Strabo and Galen on the Dead Sea The Dead Sea near Ein Bokek in February 2017 https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2017/2/2/more-michael-on-dreams monthly 0.5 2020-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1486075716807-M5J3E5DHLVLT1SOQGMED/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - More from Michael of Ephesus on dreams Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840), A Walk at Dusk (around 1830-35). From the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, distributed via the Getty's Open Content Program. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/9/14/athenaeus-advice-on-when-to-buy-different-meats monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1484230393013-TUBHRILP88U7FVXM5VCN/Da-Pompei-Casa-del-Granduca-di-Toscana-624x656.jpg Ancient Medicine - Athenaeus of Attalia on meats by season Dinner in Pompei. Da Pompei, Casa del Granduca di Toscana, IC 2, 27 Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale. From the exhibition Mito e Natura that took place at the Palazzo Reale in Milan (31 July 2015 - 10 January 2016). Image from the Milan Museum Guide. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2017/1/4/a-neoplatonists-hymn monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1483490700626-N7N12J6OPMM4FFFTZD0R/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - A Neoplatonist’s Hymn “The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave” from William Blake’s The Grave (1806). Public domain via the University of Adelaide. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/9/14/athenaeus-advice-for-autumn-weather monthly 0.5 2020-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1474563377540-CCCAJ3DYUDFWDUXBM3S1/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Advice for autumn weather Harvesting with tunics. Detail from British Library Add MS 42130, the Luttrell Psalter, f.172v. From the British Library digitised manuscripts collection. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/9/14/athenaeus-back-to-school-advice monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1473851928712-YDGM6LPZ9CLO6G2241RI/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Athenaeus’ Back to School Advice A young boy arrives late for class. Detail from a funerary monument (c. 185 CE), found at Neumagen near Trier and held at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. Image unattributed, found at The Classics Library. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/9/2/solids-liquids-gases monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1472772807189-RIDKVLEVY8P4ZLAERMSS/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Solids, Liquids, Gases Image: folio 3v of the Vienna Dioscorides MS (produced around 500 CE). Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Clockwise from left: Apollonius (unclear which one); Krateus; Galen; Dioscorides; Nicander. Included on folio 3v but not pictured here: Andreas and Rufus. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/8/23/byzantine-silk monthly 0.5 2016-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1471980060499-AG2NCDH56F0XCW8GZKVJ/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Byzantine Silk Women weaving and preparing silk. Unknown, 11th C. Image by Maxim91 (link defunct) distributed via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/7/22/galen-and-palladius-on-mental-exercise-and-the-boundary-between-medicine-and-philosophy monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1469150522008-12XD36UM23ZTRH17JWT4/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Galen and Palladius on Mental Exercise and the Boundaries between Medicine and Philosophy Nicolaes Moeyaert, Hippocrates visiting Democritus (1636), at the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/7/19/michael-of-ephesus-talks-about-his-dreams monthly 0.5 2016-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468890358663-37U4MB0ZPKCRS78B1VGB/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Michael of Ephesus talks about his dreams Anonymous, the Evangelist Mark Seated in his Study (c. 11th c. CE), image from the Walters Art Museum (No. W.530.A), distributed under a CC license. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/7/17/michael-of-ephesus-on-death-and-the-decisions-of-providence monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468723466587-ZBZEZ2J8QK3JP1GYN0D1/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Michael of Ephesus on death and the decisions of Providence The start of Michael's commentary on Aristotle’s Youth and Old-Age, Life and Death, and Respiration in codex parisinus graecus 1921, f.190v https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/7/15/democritus-and-aristotle-on-art-and-nature monthly 0.5 2020-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468612555424-Z42KVMVC72NE5BJK3M2O/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - (Plato on) Democritus and Aristotle (on Plato) on Art and Nature https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/7/14/alexander-and-the-peach-tree monthly 0.5 2018-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468507567411-HCXEMEGBGLL96NI6S4PP/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Alexander and the Peach Tree Alexander the Great and Darius III. Photo of the Alexander Mosaic (c.100 BCE) at the Museo archeologico nazionale in Naples, taken by Berthold Werner, distributed under CC 3.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468507341531-PBF5R7UPSONGQA6PWYUC/Peach.png Ancient Medicine - Alexander and the Peach Tree Marion Eugene Ensminger & Audrey H. Ensminger, Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, 1993, p. 1040. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468516782383-V77W3AMLFE65ZZFAZ9S4/image-asset.png Ancient Medicine - Alexander and the Peach Tree Owen’s 1807 translation of the elegy. Source: Google Books. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/7/13/john-of-alexandria-on-hippocrates-and-the-pneumatic-school monthly 0.5 2018-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468408716924-3XORJ35R7AGE92MJ46C0/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - John of Alexandria on Hippocrates and the Pneumatic School There are no Pneumatists in the images from the Vienna Dioscorides (512 CE—this is f.3v). Source: Pedanius Dioscorides, Der Wiener Dioskurides, Codex medicus Graecus 1 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt 1998 (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst; Band 8). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/7/13/the-soul-is-an-octopus-ancient-idea-of-life-and-the-body-chiara-thumiger monthly 0.5 2021-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468368417412-X01VXEGCBEXLKPLQHF1F/image-asset.png Ancient Medicine - “The Soul is an Octopus”– Ancient ideas of life and the body — Chiara Thumiger Exhibition poster. The designs and illustrations for the whole exhibition are by Christoph Geiger. The exhibition was curated by Uta Kornmeier. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/3/31/invasive-species monthly 0.5 2024-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468174684235-VYHBWHLES0M0SP0SHZGD/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Invasive species The Avocado, Persea americana. Named after the Egyptian Persea. Photograph by “Avacadoguy,” distributed under CC 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468173154131-74W65YZNDM6R3ZXKZIWX/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Invasive species Prunus persica - The Persian Plum. From Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany. Distributed under CC 4.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468174296522-EXYEQR42V38Q7E1FLL3S/image-asset.jpeg Ancient Medicine - Invasive species The Persea tree of Ancient Egypt. Source: Cow of Gold, distributed under CC 3.0. https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/1/6/luuh3er89se7zcjch97ptutdmacm0k monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468409900609-8OZS49HQKVOPDHB8ZTB6/image-asset.png Ancient Medicine - Moving Causes British Library’s Add ms. 11888 f.9r (15th century) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1452125288631-7FSUSRH7D8GCPH15FZR8/aldine+galen+def+155.jpg Ancient Medicine - Moving Causes The 1525 Aldine edition of Galen's Definitions ( v.4; ὃροι ἰατρικοί., p.13 ) reports Athenaeus’ definition of the prokatarctic cause under the heading for the “synectic cause.” From the BIU Santé / Université Paris Déscartes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1452126738828-HK31DBZ36ITIJTMY93QX/add.ms.jpg Ancient Medicine - Moving Causes The misplaced definition is found in the 15th c. British Library’s Add ms. 11888 f.9r https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2016/1/5/the-medical-definitions monthly 0.5 2020-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1468430862074-Y4VCODSY4IKENHHA8HXC/image-asset.png Ancient Medicine - An ambiguous reference in [Galen] Medical Definitions 31 (XIX 356K) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56735f50a2bab8f9c97c115d/1452037581023-TI5FKZ5QXN401BKKW9G5/aldine+galen+def+31.jpg Ancient Medicine - An ambiguous reference in [Galen] Medical Definitions 31 (XIX 356K) The 1525 Aldine edition of Galen doesn't make it any clearer what Athenaeus was supposed to have said. 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