Syllabus of medical history / Victor Robinson.

  • Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947.
Date:
1933
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    to prepare lard for medicinal purposes, and his method of pre¬ paring elaterium has been only slightly modified in recent times. He knew the therapeutic applications of linseed, and gave the technic of making vinegar of squills. He was the first to men¬ tion ginger, aconite and ammoniacum, and the first who dis¬ cussed the therapeutics of aloes. He gave mercury its name of hydrargyrum, or fluid silver. He recommended aspidium for tapeworm. He refers to the astringent properties of iron, and advocated its use in uterine hemorrhage. He knew also that all oaks are astringent. He was the first who indicated means for detecting adulteration in drugs. An enthusiastic student counted 958 remedies in Dioscorides, and of course he overlooked some. 9. Describe Galen’s work in myology and osteology: Today, whoever speaks of anatomy, pays tribute to Galen; the platysma myoid&s, says the modern anatomist, but this muscle was first named and described by the Pergamene physician. The frontalis muscle, the popliteus, the two muscles of the eye¬ lids, the six muscles of the eyeball, the muscles of the spine, the muscles of each lateral cartilage of the nose, the maxillary group of muscles, with many muscles of the head and neck, both extremi¬ ties and the body proper, were comprised in the Galenian myology, and in many instances the names which he suggested have been re¬ tained unto the present time. He divided the vertebrae into cervical, dorsal and lumbar, and gave a correct account of the number and the situation of each. He named the bones and sutures of the cranium, and knew the squamous, styloid, mastoid and petrous portions of the temporal bones; the sphenoid, the ethmoid, the malar, the maxillary and nasal bones were familiar to him. In these descriptions Galen made few errors. The moderns have made little change in his osteology. 10. Write about the Founder of Experimental Physiology: Hellenic culture, disappearing beneath the heel of the Roman soldier, was able in its decline to produce a physician in whom is summed up the climax and the downfall of classic antiquity. In Galen’s time, human dissection was no longer permitted, and