plant
Oats
Oats as a plant people have named and used. Plain porridge, steady grain, humble field — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Oats is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists oats (bromos) among cereal drugs and poultices. A named oats in that handbook, not barley/wheat/millet as neighboring cereal pharmacy already filed and not a breakfast dump alone.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Oats is historically related to Vinegar.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, the meal of oats boiled with vinegar and applied takes away freckles and spots in the face — oats are boiled with that vinegar.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Oats is historically related to Barley.
In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, diastase forms during malting in the grains of barley, oats, and wheat, then separated by moistening malt flour in cold water.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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Milk is historically related to Oats.
In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, oatmeal or groats gruel may have milk added as a demulcent drink — milk is added to that oats gruel.
from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)
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Rye is historically related to Oats.
In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, rye and oats do not grow in the warmer climates, their place being in a manner supplied by barley mixed with broken straw as fodder.
from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)
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Wheat is historically related to Oats.
In Ure’s Dictionary, diastase forms during malting in the grains of barley, oats, and wheat, and is separated by moistening malt flour in cold water, pressing, filtering, and heating the clear liquid in a water bath.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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Roman religion
Oats appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History seats oats among cereals of provincial and fodder agriculture. A named oat in that encyclopedia, not wheat as the bread grain already walked under Dioscorides and not a modern breakfast dump alone.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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sources
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- The English Physician · Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Complete Herbal).
- Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines · Andrew Ure
Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines.
- Medical Lexicon · Robley Dunglison
Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon (Dictionary of Medical Science).
- A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · Richard Watson
Richard Watson, A Biblical and Theological Dictionary.