A Treatise on Apis (the Bee), Tella Araneæ (Cobweb), Spongia and Cantharis (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Treatise on Apis (the Bee), Tella Araneæ (Cobweb), Spongia and Cantharis Such remedies as are of animal or insect origin have been used from the earliest date, in medicine. As indicated in the following pages, which concern only a few of these, the record of their employment and introduction reaches, in all directions, back into antiquity. The references in Mouffet´s History of Insects (1658) are particularly interesting, in that nearly every authority named in that remarkable citation of authorities of the olden time, were referred to as enthusiastic believers in insect remedies. In Homeopathic medication many remedies of this description arc however employed, being now favorites. In Eclectic therapy but four are given authoritative recognition, these four being the subject of the present treatise. There is, however, no reason why such substances as the toxins of insects and reptiles possessed of energetic physiological reactions should not have therapeutic qualities, if remedies like beef gall, musk, and castor (likewise her looms of the past), are given pharmacopeia! recognition. In Eclectic medicine, however, spongia, apis, tela aranete, and cantharides are the only ones having any conspicuity. All of these, excepting the last, are highly valued by a great number of Eclectic physicians, and arc being increasingly employed by physicians of other schools. The history, descriptions, and therapeutic record of these four remedies, of which one only, spongia, is not of insect origin, arc considered in more or less detail in the following pages. The following, from the pen of Mr. John Thomas Lloyd, briefly but yet comprehensively introduces the subject: Insects have been used in Chinese medicine from time immemorial." The Greeks and the Romans employed insects as far back as the time of Christ, perhaps much earlier. But it was not until the Middle Ages that they came into universal use, being then presumed to cure almost every ill that affects mankind. Since that time, most insects have fallen into disrepute as remedial agents. The number of spiders employed has gradually diminished until, at the present time, barely a half dozen species are utilized. "Home practice," however, of the older generation still recommends some almost forgotten insect remedy, as for example Lumbricus, angle worm oil, to cure rheumatism. A list of the insects used in medicine during the seventeenth century would enumerate almost every insect then known to man. At that period, religionists believed that every creature was made to be of some special benefit to man. In order to apply this theory to the hordes of insects, presumably created only to serve human interests, they were identified, wherever possible, as remedies for disease. A few, however, received little or no attention in medicine, their usefulness to man being accounted for in some other way. Thus apis, the bee (of importance in medicine at the present day), was much overlooked, evidently because its service to man in the making of honey was deemed reason sufficient for its creation. In the case of one insect, Mouffett (1658) states that he has found in it no medicinal properties, but he expresses a strong conviction that at some time the purpose of its creation will be discovered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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