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IX.: ANTIDOTUM. - Hippocrates, The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen [1846]

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The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen. Epitomised from the Original Latin translations, by John Redman Coxe (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1846).

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IX.

ANTIDOTUM.

Ex Nicolai Alexandrini, De Comp. Medic. i. 365.—Haller, iv. 244.

Pretty much of the same character with the preceding, but consisting of only eleven ingredients, one of which is opium. This is also called an antidote of Hippocrates, and was used as a panacea! Hundreds might be formed of equal importance, by drawing out the names of medicines from a wheel, and manipulating the ingredients secundum artem!