…The term medical finger was already used in the Greek and Roman era because it was believed that if medicine was mixed with this finger, it would be immediately obvious if it was poisonous. Even today, there is a widespread superstition that it is bad to apply ointments or scratch the skin with any finger other than the ring finger. The Romans called it the digitus annularis, and the Anglo-Saxons called it the gold finger or annular finger because it had an unbranched blood vessel (or nerve) connecting the heart to this finger, and it was believed that if a gold ring was placed on this finger, the heart would be captured. Even today, engagement rings are worn on this finger. In Rabelais's Book III, Pantagruel, there is a story about a beautiful gold ring studded with precious cattails being placed on a woman's ring finger. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "ring finger" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…薬指medical fingerという呼称がすでにギリシア・ローマの時代に用いられたのは,この指で薬を調合すれば有毒なものが混じっても直ちにわかるとされたからで,今も薬指以外の指で軟膏を塗ったり肌をかくのは良くないとする迷信が広く残っている。またこれを環指digitus annularisとローマ人が呼び,黄金の指gold fingerまたはannular fingerとアングロ・サクソン人が呼んだのは,心臓とこの指とをつなぐ分枝のない血管(または神経)があるから,これに金の指環(ゆびわ)をはめれば心をとらえることができると信じられたからで,婚約指環は今もこの指にする。ラブレーの《第三之書パンタグリュエル》に,高価なガマ石をちりばめた美しい金の指環を女の薬指にはめる話があるのもこれである。… ※「環指」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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