ON [MEDICAMENTS] ACCORDING TO PLACES, BOOK 8

...according to other proportions. For some, a medicine composed simply of three or four ingredients was sufficient, while others extended the number to many more. And some, as has been said, made their compositions for the windpipe arteriacas: These are medicinal preparations specifically intended for the trachea, which Galen called the "rough artery." from the softest and most soothing materials. Others, conversely, made them from materials that were sharp, hot, cleansing, and quite drying. There are also those who created a third type, which is in the middle of these two.

Following these, others worked in the space between the middle and the softest types, while others worked between the sharpest and the middle. Following this same logic again, some departed more and some less from the medicinal power of the intermediate drugs, and thus created various compositions.

Only the person who understands the power dynamin: The inherent property or medicinal action of a substance. of each simple ingredient will use all of these correctly. For such a person will know the classification of the medicine and how far it has deviated from the middle path. Furthermore, those who lived before Mantias and Heraclides Mantias was a 3rd-century BCE physician of the Herophilean school. Heraclides of Tarentum was a famous Empiricist physician from the 1st century BCE, known for his work in pharmacology. wrote of such medicines, as did those who came after them. However, much better compositions were recorded by the aforementioned men, whether they composed them themselves or received them from others through their collections...