plant
Hemp
Hemp as a plant people have named and used. Strong fiber, lasting cord, useful stalk — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Hemp is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists hemp (kannabis) among plant drugs with juice and seed uses noted in the handbook. A named hemp in that craft, not a modern cannabis-culture dump and not flax as the neighboring fiber plant.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Hemp is historically related to Milk.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, hemp seed boiled in milk and taken helps a hot dry cough — hemp seed is boiled in that milk.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Hemp is historically related to Linen.
In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, liquor pyrooleosus e linteo is a pyrogenous oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel — hemp is burned with that linen.
from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)
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Hemp is historically related to Charcoal.
In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, molten copper stirred with a stick of linden-tree charcoal is poured over birch twigs into water so it breaks into granules as small as hemp seeds.
from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912
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Rope is historically related to Hemp.
Ure’s Dictionary of Arts seats hemp among fibres spun and laid into rope and cordage. A named rope beside hemp as ordinary cordage plant, not thread as sewing line.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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Ladle is historically related to Hemp.
In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, the silver-quenching ladle has a hole through which a hemp seed just passes; he fills this ladle three times with water to quench the silver — the ladle is gauged by that hemp seed.
from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912
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Birch is historically related to Hemp.
In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, molten copper is poured over a bundle of new clean birch twigs into a tub of water, breaking into granules as small as hemp seeds — birch granulates copper to that hemp size.
from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912
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Roman religion
Hemp appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History seats hemp among fiber plants for rope and related craft. A named hemp in that encyclopedia, not flax as the linen crop already walked here and not a modern cannabis-culture dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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Hellenic religion
Hemp appears in Hellenic religion.
Herodotus’s Scythian logos describes hemp used in vapor-bath rites. A named hemp in that traveler’s speech, not Dioscorides/Pliny pharmacy alone and not a modern cannabis dump.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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European folklore
Jute is historically related to Hemp.
Beck’s Dictionary seats jute among coarse bast bagging and carpet fibers of drapery and packing trade beside hemp. A named jute in that drapery trade, not sisal as leaf fiber and not coir as coconut husk fiber.
from S. William Beck · The Draper’s Dictionary, 1882
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Sisal is historically related to Hemp.
Beck’s Dictionary seats sisal among hard leaf fibers of cordage and mat goods in the hemp neighborhood of trade speech. A named sisal in that drapery/cordage trade, not jute as soft bast bagging and not abaca as Manila hemp.
from S. William Beck · The Draper’s Dictionary, 1882
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Coir is historically related to Hemp.
Beck’s Dictionary seats coir among coconut-husk cordage and matting fibers beside hemp in trade fiber speech. A named coir in that drapery/cordage trade, not jute as bast bagging and not sisal as agave leaf fiber.
from S. William Beck · The Draper’s Dictionary, 1882
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Abaca is historically related to Hemp.
Beck’s Dictionary seats abaca (Manila hemp) among strong leaf-stem cordage fibers named hemp in trade speech though not Cannabis. A named abaca in that drapery/cordage trade, not sisal as agave fiber and not true hemp as Cannabis bast.
from S. William Beck · The Draper’s Dictionary, 1882
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sources
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.
- The English Physician · Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Complete Herbal).
- Medical Lexicon · Robley Dunglison
Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon (Dictionary of Medical Science).
- De Re Metallica · Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation)
Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, trans. Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (1912).
- The Draper’s Dictionary · S. William Beck
S. William Beck, The Draper’s Dictionary (1882).
- Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines · Andrew Ure
Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines.