(22-10-2019, 10:12 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.MarcoP wrote:"For instance, his interpretation of the pharma section as inspired by Galen comes from a scholar who has devoted to Galen several of his You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.."
I would be interested in seeing this person's interpretation of parallels between Galen and the VMS small plants section.
The link to the published works of medical traditions includes many different authors. Did Touwaide mention a name for the Galen researcher?
I am sorry JKP, my poor English again. I was referring to Alain Touwaide himself: no other researcher is involved. He did not elaborate much on the subject: he said that ancient medical science is divided in two phases. The first one (with Hippocrates and Dioscorides) was about simple medicines. The second one (with Galen) introduced compound drugs.
This is what I understand of the subject: as is well known, the Tractatus de Herbis is an illustrated version of a text which begins with the words "Circa instans negotium de simplicibus medicinis" (about the present subject of simple medicines): herbs are simple drugs.
As far as I know, the "small plants" section of the VMS is unique. As we discussed on the forum, there are a few herbals with large-plants and small-plants sections (e.g. the first two pages of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), but the VMS is different, because there are rows of "simples" each described by a separate paragraph of text. More importantly, most of the rows of plants begin with a labelled container that could represent the compound produced by using those simples. I think Touwaide finds this original iconographic system suggestive of the knowledge of Galen's works about compound drugs (of which I know nothing).
About Touwaide's paper, in 2016 Rene published a summary of it on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..