Answers to Apprentice Quiz 1
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Here's the answers:
1. Name 3 period sources on herbalism (500-1600 AD), other than Gerard. Culpeper is OP.
I would have said: Banckes' Herbal, Dioscorides, Platina, Hortus Sanitatus, Thomas Hyll, Leechbook of Bald, Old English Herbarium, Lacnunga manuscript, Menagier de Paris
Good answers from other people, with my comments:
Pliny or Platina?<i>(both, actually-- Pliny is around AD 79, Platina is 14th c.)</I>
Soup for the Qan (don't have the chinese name memorized) has lots of plant info
The Book of Familiar Foods (don't have the Arabic name memorized either), though it's more of a cookbook
Hildegard [of Bingen- 12th c.]
Galen
Plat [Jewelhouse of Art & Nature, first published 1594]
Postperiod but still good sources mentioned by others:
Digby [The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt Opened; 1669]
Markham-- English Housewife is 1615
Plat- Delightes for Ladies 1602.
2. Name 3 herbs or plants useful to a breastfeeding mother, and one that would not be. Tell me why.
I was looking for cabbage-- applied, to relieve swelling; fennel, to increase breast milk production, as does lettuce.
Sage causes decreased milk supply.
3. Name 2 herbs used in period that are not considered safe any more.
I was fishing for rue and pennyroyal, though foxglove, wormwood, mandrake, and lily of the valley would all be good answers.
4. List 3 herbs useful for fevers and known to be so in period.
Feverfew was considered good for an ague; mints, because of their cooling nature and the usefulness of menthol, were also prescribed in fevers. Both mint and catnip are/were used to induce persperation.
As far as I can tell, the use of willowbark for its salicin content is 18th century, but Gerard suggests meadowsweet, which also has salicin, for quartain ague.
5. Define carminative and emmenagogue.
Carminative: reducing and/or expelling gas
Emmenagoge: bringing on, or tending to bring on, the onset of menses
6. List some substances used to thicken foods in period.
Bread crumbs, almond or other nuts, wheat starch, rice starch, eggs
7. In the theory of humors, what would be a good treatment for someone of a phlegmatic constitution?
Anything hot and dry, such as a sauce of hot and dry spices.
8. What shops would you visit in a trip to the city for herbal products in period?
The apothecary; the general market; the 'grocer', the saucier or sauce maker. Monasteries that had excess products to sell usually sent someone to the general market.
Here's the answers:
1. Name 3 period sources on herbalism (500-1600 AD), other than Gerard. Culpeper is OP.
I would have said: Banckes' Herbal, Dioscorides, Platina, Hortus Sanitatus, Thomas Hyll, Leechbook of Bald, Old English Herbarium, Lacnunga manuscript, Menagier de Paris
Good answers from other people, with my comments:
Pliny or Platina?<i>(both, actually-- Pliny is around AD 79, Platina is 14th c.)</I>
Soup for the Qan (don't have the chinese name memorized) has lots of plant info
The Book of Familiar Foods (don't have the Arabic name memorized either), though it's more of a cookbook
Hildegard [of Bingen- 12th c.]
Galen
Plat [Jewelhouse of Art & Nature, first published 1594]
Postperiod but still good sources mentioned by others:
Digby [The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt Opened; 1669]
Markham-- English Housewife is 1615
Plat- Delightes for Ladies 1602.
2. Name 3 herbs or plants useful to a breastfeeding mother, and one that would not be. Tell me why.
I was looking for cabbage-- applied, to relieve swelling; fennel, to increase breast milk production, as does lettuce.
Sage causes decreased milk supply.
3. Name 2 herbs used in period that are not considered safe any more.
I was fishing for rue and pennyroyal, though foxglove, wormwood, mandrake, and lily of the valley would all be good answers.
4. List 3 herbs useful for fevers and known to be so in period.
Feverfew was considered good for an ague; mints, because of their cooling nature and the usefulness of menthol, were also prescribed in fevers. Both mint and catnip are/were used to induce persperation.
As far as I can tell, the use of willowbark for its salicin content is 18th century, but Gerard suggests meadowsweet, which also has salicin, for quartain ague.
5. Define carminative and emmenagogue.
Carminative: reducing and/or expelling gas
Emmenagoge: bringing on, or tending to bring on, the onset of menses
6. List some substances used to thicken foods in period.
Bread crumbs, almond or other nuts, wheat starch, rice starch, eggs
7. In the theory of humors, what would be a good treatment for someone of a phlegmatic constitution?
Anything hot and dry, such as a sauce of hot and dry spices.
8. What shops would you visit in a trip to the city for herbal products in period?
The apothecary; the general market; the 'grocer', the saucier or sauce maker. Monasteries that had excess products to sell usually sent someone to the general market.
