From: Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy)
Animals | Pliny | Dioscorides | Galen | Serenus Sammonicus |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cimex lecturalius | To cure quartain fevers | To cure quartain fevers | Â | To cure tertian fevers |
 | (Naturalis Historia XXIX, 17) | (De Materia Medica II, 36) |  | (Liber Medicinalis XLIX, 921) |
 | [14] | [16] |  | [22] |
Homo sapiens | Â | To cure dropsy | Â | Â |
 |  | (De Materia Medica II, 99) |  |  |
 |  | [16] |  |  |
Lumbricus terrestris | Â | To cure tertian fevers | Â | Â |
 |  | (De Materia Medica II, 99) |  |  |
 |  | [16] |  |  |
Spider | To cure quartain fevers | To cure quartain fevers | Â | Â |
 | (Naturalis Historia XXX, 30) | (De Materia Medica II, 48) |  |  |
 | [14] | [16] |  |  |
Vipera aspis | To cure fevers | Â | Â | Â |
 | (Naturalis Historia XXX, 30) |  |  |  |
 | [14] |  |  |  |
Capra hircus | Â | To cure hepatomegaly | To cure spleenomegaly and dropsy | Â |
 |  | (De Materia Medica II, 98) | (Galeni Opera Omnia XII, 297; XIII, 263) |  |
 |  | [16] |  | |
Erinaceus europaeus | To cure dropsy | To cure dropsy | Â | Â |
 | (Naturalis Historia XXX, 30) | (De Materia Medica II, 2) |  |  |
 | [14] | [16] |  |  |
Cantharis vescicatoria | To cure dropsy | Â | To expel urine | Â |
 | (Naturalis Historia XXIX, 96) |  | (Galeni Opera Omnia XII, 363) |  |
 | [14] |  | [20] |  |
Snake | To cure quartain fevers | Â | Â | Â |
 | (Naturalis Historia XXX, 30) |  |  |  |
 | [14] |  |  |  |
Bos taurus | Â | Â | To cure dropsy | Â |
 |  |  | (Galeni Opera Omnia XIII, 263) |  |
 |  |  | [21] |  |