Isis . reful; 3. Theactual language in which the documents have come down to us —English or Latin — is hardly more than an accident. After these preliminary remarks, Singer proceeds to decompose thevery complex mass of Anglo-Saxon medico-magical literature, andanalyzes successively the eight following constituent parts : I. Greek medicine filtered through Latin [true Dark Age Medicine).— We must distinguish on one hand the real translations, the mostpopular authors being Diobcorides, Galen, Oribasius (iv^ c.), Alexan- 436 ISIS. III. 1920 DEE of Tralles (vii) aud Paul of Aegina (vii>) and th
Isis . reful; 3. Theactual language in which the documents have come down to us —English or Latin — is hardly more than an accident. After these preliminary remarks, Singer proceeds to decompose thevery complex mass of Anglo-Saxon medico-magical literature, andanalyzes successively the eight following constituent parts : I. Greek medicine filtered through Latin [true Dark Age Medicine).— We must distinguish on one hand the real translations, the mostpopular authors being Diobcorides, Galen, Oribasius (iv^ c.), Alexan- 436 ISIS. III. 1920 DEE of Tralles (vii) aud Paul of Aegina (vii>) and the adaptations suchas PsEUDO-DioscoRiDES, de herbis feminis (vi^^l), , deherbis (iv?), Sextus Papyrensis, de medicina ex aiiimalibus{iv!?), Marcellus Empiricus of Bordeaux, de medicamentis (vh) andthe Pseudo Hippocratic Epistles (iv?). The fundamental ideas ofthis debased Greco-Latin medicine is the doctrine of the four elements JourcM of Anglo- Saxjn Me<Iicinc and Maqn. ^Ja%^^ AcomposiTf maai conlaining in order of ImporlaIlr^:-l Qreiik Medicine flllered Ihroiu^li bUn (true Dark Aqe Mediane) 2 hccltsiaslital Elcinenis 3 Salerniian lexis clc A Native Tcu^nic Magie and Hcrblcre 5 ailK(Hisperici-Nalivc) Maqic 6 Cornfcsitc Herblore from Soulh llaly 7. Byzanlinc Ma^ic and Theurgy 8. P£gan Roman Spells Fig. 2. and the four humours, and the close relation between the macrocosmand the microcosm. Some magical devices, such as the Sphere ofPythagoras reached England by this channel. II. Ecclesiastical elements. III. Salernitan texts. — These two elements are easily traced andneed only be mentioned. IV. Natiue Teutonic Magic and Medicine. — This may be distin-guished from the material belonging to the previous groups by thepresence of four characteristic elements : the doctrine of specificvenoms, the doctrine of the nines, the doctrine of the worm as the REVIEWS 437 cause of disease and lastly the doctrine of the elf-shot. Much of thisTeutonic mater
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