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Re: Caputpurge

Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 03:34:08 +0000 (GMT)
To: histneur-l@library.ucla.edu
From: Dr Elizabeth McCardell <dr_mccardell@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Caputpurge
Message-ID: 20030105033408.63611.qmail@web20511.mail.yahoo.com

This is intriguing. I shall find out the method of
recipe.
Elizabeth McCardell


 --- Plinio Prioreschi [plinio@creighton.edu] wrote: 
In the Middle Ages, a "caputpurge" (caputpurgius, caputpurgium – evidently 
from caput and purgare) was a preparation for the "purging of the head. 
According to Taddeo Alderotti, alcohol (aqua vite)was good for chronic
headaches "if a caputpurge is made with it;" Guglielmo da Varignana says 
"...with oil of anise, oil of crocus, oil of chamomile make a 
caputpurgium..."

Would anybody know how a “caputpurge” was made?

Thanks,

Plinio Prioreschi


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Dr Elizabeth McCardell
Division of Social Science, Humanities & Education
Murdoch University
home ph: 61 08 9336 2917
http://www.expage.com/dasgestell

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