ON MEDICINES FOR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY, BOOK II

...they eat foods that are mild original Greek: "adektous," literally meaning "not biting" or non-irritating and relaxing. If they feel any roughness, they take foods that coat the parts they touch. This is because there is one continuous tunic membrane that is stretched internally, covering the pharynx, the larynx, the gullet oesophagus, and the windpipe trachea.

If the condition in the vocal organs is not settled by diet and baths, they move on to "arteriac" remedies medicines specifically formulated for the windpipe or "arteria". During this entire time, they use foods made from milk, starch, groats alica, eggs, and honey cakes itria a type of thin, flat pastry often used in medical diets.

If they are not cured by these means, physicians have invented the so-called sublingual medicines hypoglottides literally "under the tongue" lozenges. These have the same power as the arteriac remedies used for non-inflamed conditions. They are composed of Theraean wine wine from the island of Thera, known today as Santorini, gum, tragacanth, and licorice glycyrrhiza. As I have said, these ingredients smooth and simultaneously relieve roughness. Whatever inflammation remains in the parts, these medicines cook concoct in Galenic medicine, "concoction" refers to the process of the body ripening or resolving inflammatory fluids and quickly heal. Furthermore, the person who places the medicine under the tongue must be patient, so that as it melts little by little, the top of the windpipe...