{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg071.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg071.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg071.local001","title":"De hirudinibus, revulsione, cucurbitula, incisione et scarificatione","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Karl Gottlob Kühn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Knobloch","place":"Leipzig","date":"1826","volume":"11","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hxpp8s?urlappend=%3Bseq=329%3Bownerid=27021597764275152-333","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De hirudinibus, revulsione, cucurbitula, incisione et scarificatione. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1826. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg071.local001","excerpt":"Θηρῶντές τινες τὰς βδέλλας κατακλείουσι καὶ ἐπὶ πολλοῖς αὐταῖς χρῶνται. αὗται γὰρ ἐκμειλίττουσαι ῥᾳδίως ἅπτονται τῶν σαρκῶν. τὰς δὲ νέον εἰλημμένας φυλάττειν χρὴ ἡμέραν μίαν, αἷμα ὀλίγον εἰς διατροφὴν ἐμβάλλοντας. οὕτως γὰρ διαπιεσθήσεται τὸ ἰῶδες αὐτῶν. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς χρείας τὸ βδελλισθησόμενον μέρος προεκνιτρούσθω καὶ καταχριέσθω ἢ κνάσθω τοῖς ὄνυξι, ἑτοιμότερον γὰρ ἅψονται. δεῖ δὲ ἐμβαλεῖν αὐτὰ εἰς ὕδωρ χλιαρὸν καὶ καθαρὸν ἀγγεῖον εὐρὺ, ἔπειτα σπόγγῳ περιλαβόντες αὐτὰς καὶ τὸ γλοιῶδες ἀποκαθάραντες διὰ τῶν χειρῶν προσέξομεν. μετὰ δὲ τὸ ἐμφῦναι ἔλαιον χλιαρὸν ἐπιχέομεν τῷ μορίῳ, ὥστε μὴ ψυγῆναι. ἐπὶ δὲ χειρῶν ἢ ποδῶν αὐτὸ τὸ μέρος ἐμβαλεῖν χρὴ τῷ ὕδατι, ἔνθα εἰσὶν αἱ βδέλλαι. εἰ δὲ ὀλίγον ἅψοιντο, ψαλίζειν χρὴ τὰς οὐρὰς αὐτῶν. ἐκχεομένου γὰρ τοῦ αἵματος, ἕλκουσαι οὐ παύονται, μέχρις ἂν ἡμεῖς ἅλας ἢ σποδὸν προσπάσσωμεν αὐτῶν τοῖς στόμασι. μετὰ δὲ τὸ ἀποπεσεῖν σικύᾳ χρὴ τὸ ἰῶδες ἐξέλκειν·…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΒΔΕΛΛΩΝ, ΑΝΤΙΣΠΑΣΕΩΣ, ΣΙΚΥΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΓΧΑΡΑΞΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΤΑΣΧΑΣΜΟΥ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg071.local001/1/"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg071.local001/2-chapter-2/"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg071.local001/3-chapter-3/"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg071.local001/4-chapter-4/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg071.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg071.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg071/local001.json.gz"}}