of preservation, sweetness, and sometimes of utility. The austere and
vinous hydromel brought from Cebyra in small vessels is an exception;
for I have known it formed without honey, as the apomel is made from
honey alone and water, without any other substance. But those things
which are prepared from wine, which are called propotions (or “whets”?)
receive sext. j of scummed honey to four of wine and are made without
being boiled. Those which are prepared from water and juices, if boiled,
receive one part of honey to three of the liquor, about two parts of
which are consumed in the boiling; but if they are not boiled they
receive one part of honey to two of the liquor. Those things which are
not boiled are to be isolated for a sufficient time, and particularly
the omphacomel. Those from water require to be boiled, because from
their weakness they are readily changed. They are all to be laid up in
small pitched earthen vessels, which are to be carefully covered up and
deposited in situations above ground until they are concocted. They are
to be used as attenuants, and well mixed with water. But the omphacomel
after being boiled like must, and settling, is to be covered up. Those
composed from wine we use principally in cases which are free from fever,
or for the relish only (with the exception of those which are prepared
from scammony, the granum Cnidium, or the like purgatives); or in such
affections as when we would use the medicines which are the ingredients
of them by the mouth. Those prepared from water, or the juices we use
in febrile cases, or as sweeteners, when the disease does not admit the
use of wines, and sometimes as agreeing with the affections, as apomel
for a sialogogue, diuretic, laxative of the bowels, or attenuant of
humours; and hydromelon and hydrorosaton in cases of thirst, ardent
fevers, resolutions, and derangements of the stomach; and omphacomel,
myrteton, rhodostacton, and rhoita, in cæliac and dysenteric cases, and
for vomitings and other defluxions. They are frequently used as washes in
affections of the mouth.
_The hydromelum from the juice of apples._ Of the juice of clean quinces
bruised, sext. ij; of honey, sext. iij; of water, sext. vj. Boil,
scumming it until it be reduced to a third part. _Another._—Of clean
quinces cut into pieces, lb. v. Boil in sext. j of well-water until
they become soft. Then removing them from the fire, after they become
cold, strain, and having filtrated the apples throw them away. Having
measured the water, mix with it half the quantity of honey, and boil
again, scumming it until the eighth part be consumed. Some compose the
hydromelum in like manner from sweet apples.
_The composition of the hydrorosatum._ Of roses deprived of their nails
(the white parts of the leaves), lb. iv; of water, sext. v; of honey,
sext. ij.
_The preparation of the Rhodomelum._ Of the juice of quinces, sext. j;
of roses, lb. iij; of honey, sext. iij; of water, sext. v. But since the
apples are not found at the same season with the roses, these are to be
added to honey at the proper season, and when the apples appear, the
composition is to be completed.
_The preparation of the omphacomel._ Of the juice of unripe grapes, sext.
iij; of honey, sext. j. Having mixed, expose it to the sun for forty
days, or boil.
_The preparation of Myrteta._ Of the juice of myrtles, sext. iij; of
honey, sext. j. Boil till the third is consumed.
_Apomel from the works of Phalagrius._ Of white honeycombs filled with
honey, lb. j; of spring water, lb. iiiss; having broken down the comb and
united them, boil the water with the honey until the scum of it and the
waxy part swim on the top and is separated, then cool and cover it up
carefully.
_The composition of rhodostactum._ Of the juice of roses without their
nails, sext. ij; of honey, sext. j. Boil, scumming it, until the fourth
part be consumed.
_The preparation of rhætes._ Of the juice of pomegranate, sext. iij; of
honey, sext. j. Boil to a third part.
* * * * *
COMMENTARY. We shall in the first place give some account of the Propoma.
It was a draught generally containing wine, which was taken at the
commencement of the supper, or principal meal of the ancients. Horace
alludes to it in the following lines:
“Anfidius forti miscebat mella Falerno,
Mendose: quoniam vacuis committere venis
Nil nisi lene decet: leni præcordia mulso
_Prolueris_ melius.”—(Lib. ii, Sat. 4.)
Catius here condemns the practice of using strong wine for the
composition of the Propoma. Old Falernian wine was thought the best. Thus
Macrobius says of it: “Mulsum quo probe temperes, miscendum esse novo
Hymetto et Falerno vetulo.” (Saturn. vii, 12.) “To the Propoma,” says
Athenæus, “were added pepper, Indian leaf, myrrh, cyperus, and Egyptian
ointment.” (Deip. ii, 25.) A long list of receipts for Propomata is given
by Myrepsus (§ 38.) Most of them contain wine, honey, and aromatics. See
a learned Dissertation on the Propoma by Casaubon (in Athen. Deipnos. ii,
17); also Lister (in Apicii Op. i, 1.)
It will be proper here to give some account of the medicated wines, or,
as we would now call them, the _Vinous Tinctures_, of the ancients.
Dioscorides details the composition of them very fully in the fifth book
of his ‘Materia Medica.’ The following is his prescription for the _wine
of squills_: Take a mina of squills, and having pounded it, sift, and
bind it in a thin piece of linen; then put it into 20 sextarii of good
fresh must, and allow it to macerate for three months; afterwards strain
the wine into another vessel, and cover it up carefully. The _wine of
quinces_ is to be prepared by putting 12 minæ of quinces, deprived of
their seeds, into a cadus of must, and allowing it to remain for thirty
days. Wines from other kinds of apples, such as medlars, services, and
pears, may be prepared in like manner. He afterwards gives similar
directions for preparing the following medicated wines:
Wine of wild vine.
pomegranate.
roses.
myrtles.
lentisk.
turpentine.
palms.
figs.
sycamores.
resin.
cone of the pine.
cedar _or_ juniper.
cedar-rosin.
pitch.
wormwood.
hyssop.
germander.
cassidony.
betony.
tragoriganum.
bunium.
dittany.
horehound.
thyme.
savoury.
marjoram.
calamint.
fleabane.
aromatics.
myrrh, pepper, and iris.
elicampane.
spikenard.
asarabacca.
wild nard _or_ valerian.
carrot.
sage.
panacea.
sweet-flag.
parsley.
fennel and dill.
hellebore, wild cucumber, or scammony, for procuring abortions.
spurge-flax.
mezerion.
ground-pine.
mandrake.
hellebore.
scammony.
The preparation of these factitious wines is also described by Pliny. (H.
N. xiv, 19.) To this class we may refer the _Vina condita_ of Apicius.
(Cap. i.) See also in particular Aëtius (iii); Myrepsus (§ 27); Haly
Abbas (Pract. x, 21); Serapion (vii, 35); Actuarius (Meth. Med. v, 7.)
Actuarius gives the following prescription for preparing a _vinous
tincture of poppies_, which he recommends for coughs, cholera, and such
like complaints: Of poppy-heads, c; of liquorice-root, lb. j; of sodden
must, lb. c.
SECT. XVI.—ON COLLYRIA AND AGGLUTINATIVE APPLICATIONS.
The materials from which ophthalmic medicines are composed are various.
For inspissated and liquid, seeds, fruits, the parts of herbs, and metals
are ingredients in them. Of these, some sooth acrimonies, and are, as it
were, obstruents, such as pompholyx, spodium, starch, lead, Samian aster,
calamine, all washed substances, and the white of an egg. These are to
be used after evacuation of the head, for if there should be plethora
of it, there will be danger of the coats of the eyes being ruptured by
distension. The opposite class of collyria being of an acrid nature, are
deobstruents and evacuants of the humours permanently lodged there; such
as the Cyrenaic and Median juices, sagapen, euphorbium, and the like.
Some are detergents of foul ulcers, such as the squama æris, copper,
chalcitis, misy, sori, the flowers of copper, and antimony burnt. Allied
to these are those called abstergents, such as arsenic, sandarach, the
flower of Asian stone. Some are astringent, and of these such as are
moderately astringent are of extensive use for ophthalmies, ulcers, and
defluxions, as the leaves, fruit, and flowers of roses, spikenard, Indian
leaf, saffron, glaucium, and hypocistis. Those possessed of a stronger
astringency are mixed with those remedies which are used for sharpening
the sight, such as omphacium, acacia, the flowers of the wild and of the
cultivated pomegranate, and galls. Some are concoctive and discutient,
such as myrrh, saffron, castor, rosemary, and the juice of fenugreek.
Of compound ophthalmic medicines, some are simply called plasta, some
xerocollyria, and some hygrocollyria. The first class admit of all the
materials formerly mentioned, and agree with all states. They are to be
prepared most commonly in spring, for in summer their strength is apt
to evaporate, and in winter the articles being constricted do not mix
properly. They are to be rubbed with the addition of a fluid, but not in
great quantity that the metallic parts may not subside, nor the aromatic
float on the surface, but in small quantities, so that it may be rubbed
until it is like the sordes of baths. Rain-water should be used, because
it is finer and moderately astringent. But if not, those things are
to be levigated and triturated with wine or some juice; the metallic
substances for a longer time, and the juicy substances for a shorter.
At last, after sufficient trituration, we must add the gum, and having
formed them, lay them up in copper vessels especially, or in glass. Those
prepared from juices are to be used immediately, but the metallic improve
by keeping. Of the xerocollyria, some melt down, and absterge callus,
sycosis, pterygium, and scabious affections, being composed of chalcitis,
verdigris, and misy. Some occasion a discharge of tears, agreeing with
obstructions and dimness of sight, and are composed of these things,
pepper and spikenard. Some are prophylactics for preventing influxes,
such as those from Phrygian stone, sarcocolla, glaucium, aloes, calamine,
antimony, and saffron. All these medicines are to be applied to the eyes
in a state of the finest powder. But the hygrocollyria are prepared
from Attic honey, opobalsam, oil of the most subtile kind from age, the
juice of fennel, the galls of different animals, the Cyrenaic juice, and
many other things. Those things which are attenuant, calefacient, and
purgative are useful for dimness of sight, and incipient suffusions.
These and all acrid things are to be used when the head is free from
plethora, and when the atmosphere is serene and pure, and the wind is
northerly, and not very hot nor very cold. Those preparations called
agglutinants are made from such things as are obstruent, agglutinative,
constringent, refrigerant, styptic, or desiccative, such as pollen,
manna, Samian earth, myrrh, shells, acacia, opium, with the white of an
egg. They are glued to the forehead when the humour is not under the
scalp, but external to it.
_The collyrium monemeron for incipient and old ophthalmies._ Of acacia,
dr. xxxvj; of gum, dr. xxxij; of calamine, dr. xxiv; of burnt and washed
copper, dr. viij; of opium, dr. j. Triturate in austere wine. It is
discutient and desiccative.
_The collyrium chiacum._ Of sinopic vermilion, of the immature gall, of
saffron, of the flower of fresh roses deprived of their nails (which we
call the pouch), of gum, of each, oz. iv; of opium, oz. j. Triturate with
Aminæan, Falernian, or Chian austere wine. But the wine must not contain
salt water.
_The collyrian cygnarium._ Of calamine, burnt and washed, oz. vj; of
washed ceruse, oz. iv; of pompholyx, oz. iv; of starch, oz. ij; of
tragacanth, of roasted opium, of gum, of each, oz. ij. Triturate with
rain-water.
_The pale-coloured cygnus._ Of calamine, burnt and washed, oz. ij; of
terra aster, oz. ij; of ceruse, oz. iv; of pompholyx, oz. viij; of
starch, oz. ij; of opium, oz. ij; of acacia, of tragacanth, of each, oz.
j; of gum, oz. iv. Triturate with rain-water.
_The white cygnus._ Of calamine, oz. xv; of ceruse, oz. xvij; of opium,
dr. viij; of frankincense, dr. vij; of starch, oz. vij; of gum, oz. xiij.
Triturate with rain-water.
_The collyrium pelarion for ulcers._ Of calamine, of ceruse, of each, dr.
xxiv; of acacia, of opium, of each, dr. xviij; of gum, of tragacanth, of
starch, of each, dr. ix; of myrrh, dr. iij; of copper, of saffron, of
each, dr. iss. Triturate with water.
_The brown collyrium, for hypopium and great affections._ Of tender
calamine, dr. xxiv; of ceruse, dr. xvj; of scraped verdigris, dr. xij;
of antimony, dr. viij; of fissile alum, dr. iij; of burnt chalcitis,
dr. iij; of Indian nard, dr. iv; of the oil of unripe olives, dr. ij;
of copper, dr. ij; of squama æris, dr. viij; of the fruit of heath, dr.
xiij; of the juice of poppy, dr. xxiv; of saffron, dr. iv; of castor, dr.
iij; of myrrh, dr. vj; of Indian buckthorn, of acacia, of gum, of each,
dr. iv; of fresh roses, dr. iiss. Triturate with Falernian, Surentine,
Aminæan, or Chian austere wine. It is rubbed in three times a day, in a
watery state, being diluted with the juice of fenugreek, then the white
of an egg or milk, and at last, with water, thicker.
_The collyrium severianum._ Of calamine, oz. vj; of ceruse, oz. xij; of
tragacanth, oz. iij. Triturate with the juice of fenugreek. Having burnt
the calamine, dissolve it in milk and then wash.
_The collyrium from decoctions._ Of calamine, oz. xvj; of ceruse, oz.
viij; of starch, of opium, of tragacanth, of acacia, of each, oz. ij; of
gum, oz. vj. Triturate with the decoction of dried roses, of melilots, of
poppy, of poppy-heads, of liquorice, in equal parts.
_The repellent collyrium, from hydria or water vessels._ Of the sand
found in copper vessels used for heating water, lb. iij; of calamine
burnt and washed, lb. j; of washed ceruse, of washed pompholyx, of washed
terra aster, of each, oz. vj; of frankincense, oz. j; of myrrh, oz. j; of
the juice of linseed, of fleawort, of ptisan, of fenugreek, of each, lb.
j; of tragacanth, oz. vj; of gum, lb. j.
_The collyrium of Nilamon._ Of calamine, oz. viij; of pompholyx, oz.
iv: of ceruse, lb. j; of tragacanth, of gum, of opium, of each, oz. iv.
Rain-water.
_The collyrium spodiacon, for inflammations, defluxions, and chemoses._
Of frankincense, of antimony, of each, dr. c; of calamine, of ceruse, of
each, dr. xxiv; of Samian earth, of the juice of poppy, of each, dr. iij;
of gum, dr. xv. Triturate with the juice of fresh olive leaves. Prepare
the juice thus: having pounded in a mortar the more tender leaves of
olive, washed, add a moderate quantity of water, and filtrate through a
piece of linen rag.
_The tender collyrium from olive leaves._ Of frankincense, dr. iv; of
antimony, dr. xv; of calamine, dr. xxviij; of ceruse, dr. xlix; of Samian
earth, dr. xviij; of opium, dr. vj; of gum, dr. j; of lead, burnt and
washed, dr. viij. Mix with the juice of green olive leaves.
_The yellow collyrium from green olive leaves._ Of burnt copper, dr. xij;
of sandyx, oz. xxiv; of olive leaves, oz. ij; of opium, oz. ij; of gum,
oz. x. Mix with palm wine, or Aminæan.
_The Claudiac collyrium from myrrh._ Of glaucium, of sarcocolla, of each,
dr. xlviij; of saffron, dr. xxiv; of opium, of myrrh, of bloodstone,
of each, dr. vi; of tragacanth, dr. xlviij; of gum, dr. xvj. Mix with
Italian wine. To be used with an egg.
_Another collyrium from myrrh, for fistula lachrymalis._ Of calamine
washed, of bloodstone washed, of each, dr. xxviij; of myrrh, of Cyprian
spodium, of each, dr. xxiv; of opium, dr. viij; of saffron, dr. iv (but
some use dr. viij); of white pepper, grs. xxx; of gum, dr. xvj. Mix with
Italian wine. To be used with an egg, and in recent cases diluted with
water.
_The stacticon of Prosechius._ Of calamine, of gum, of each, dr. xx; of
antimony, of copperas, of each, dr. viij; of opium, dr. xiv; of scraped
verdigris, dr. x; of white pepper, dr. vj; of saffron, dr. viij; of raw
misy, dr. viij; of opobalsam, dr. iv. Water.
_The hygidium of Ammonius._ Of calamine, of copper, of each, dr. xvj;
of ceruse, of castor, of aloes, of saffron, of each, dr. iv; of squama
(æris?), dr. v; of the flower of roses, of burnt lead, of each, dr. viij;
of buckthorn, dr. iij; of the stone schistos, dr. iv; of opium, dr. x;
of acacia, dr. xj; of gum, dr. xlviij. Water.
_The collyrium Olympus_, or _Olympiacum_. Of acacia, of spikenard,
of frankincence, of each, dr. viij; of copper, burnt and washed, of
antimony, burnt and washed, of ceruse, burnt and washed, of calamine, of
each, dr. xij; of myrrh, of roasted opium, of each, dr. iv; of saffron,
dr. v; of scraped verdigris, dr. iij; of the stone schistos, of the red
squama, of Indian buckthorn, of the oil of unripe grapes, of each, dr. j;
of castor, of the flower of roses, of each, dr. ij; of palm-nuts, dr. iv;
in like manner the bones of burnt palms, to the number of v; of gum, oz.
v. Rain-water. Let there be soaked in water for three nights and days, of
the aromatic reed, of the seed of henbane, of dried roses, of each, dr.
iv; of Indian leaf, dr. j.
_The collyrium of nard._ Of calamine, of saffron, of gum, of each, dr.
xxxvj; of burnt copper, dr. xviij; of antimony, of acacia, of each, dr.
xxx; of Syriac nard, dr. xij; of opium, of myrrh, of each, dr. xvj. With
water.
_The small Theodotian collyrium._ Of antimony, of acacia, of each, dr.
xx; of burnt copper, dr. viij; of ceruse, dr. iv; of myrrh, dr. iv; of
verdigris, dr. ij; of aloes, of meconium, of buckthorn, of each, dr. j.
Rain-water.
_The collyrium rhinarion._ Of bloodstone, of the stone schistos, of each,
dr. xvj; of burnt copper, of calamine, of verdigris, of each, dr. viij;
of opium, dr. v; of chalcitis, dr. ij; of gum, dr. viij. In wine.
_The collyrium xyster._ Of burnt pumice-stone, of burnt misy, of burnt
shells, of each, oz. vj; of calamine, of opium, of burnt chalcitis, of
saffron, of hepatic aloes, of castor, of Indian leaf, of each, dr. ij;
of antimony, of acacia, of each, oz. j; of burnt copper, oz. iv; of
troglodytic myrrh, dr. iv; of spikenard, dr. j; of ceruse, dr. viij; of
gum, dr. iv. Rain-water. Some also mix wine.
_The hecatomb collyrium for thick cicatrices._ Of calamine, burnt and
washed, of copper, burnt and washed, of each, dr. viij; of antimony
burnt, of the yellow acacia, of gum, of each, dr. xv; of aloes, of galls,
of ærugo vermiculata, of castor, of buckthorn, of spikenard, of saffron,
of opium, of myrrh, of ceruse, of the shavings of ebony, of chalcitis, of
each, dr. j; of roses, dr. lx. Rain-water.
_The collyrium from horn, of Galen._ Of burnt lead, of burnt hartshorn,
of each, oz. ij; of ceruse, of squama æris, of starch, of frankincense,
of cuttle-fish, of burnt shell, of verdigris, of myrrh, of gum, of each,
oz. j. Rain-water.
_The collyrium from frankincense._ Of frankincense, oz. vj; of calamine,
of pompholyx, of terra aster, of starch, of gum, of each, oz. iij; of
ceruse, oz. vj; of squama æris, oz. iv; of tragacanth, oz. iij; of opium,
oz. vj. Rain-water.
_The Libanian collyrium._ Of washed calamine, of starch, of each, dr.
xij; of ceruse, dr. xij; of spodium, of pompholyx, of terra aster, of
lead, burnt and washed, of tragacanth, of each, dr. viij; of opium, dr.
xij; of gum, dr. iv. Rain-water and the whites of twenty eggs. Some add
also of myrrh, dr. iv.
_The collyrium called the aster of Magnus._ Of pompholyx, of calamine,
of ceruse, of each, dr. xvj; of lead, dr. viij; of starch, dr. xviij;
of frankincense, dr. x; of terra aster, dr. xij; of myrrh, dr. ij; of
tragacanth, of gum, of each, dr. viij. Water.
_The collyrium Uranium._ Of terra aster, washed, oz. iij; of spodium,
washed, oz. j; of gum, oz. iv; of antimony, burnt and washed, oz. ij;
of squama æris, washed, oz. j; of opium, dr. vj; of calamine, burnt and
washed, dr. ij. Rain-water. It is an incarnant and repellent.
_The collyrium from the juice of fenugreek._ Of calamine, of tragacanth,
of each, oz. viij; of ceruse, oz. xxx; of starch, oz. xxx; of opium, oz.
j. Triturate with the juice of fenugreek.
_The collyrium of Cleon._ Of pompholyx, of lead, of each, oz. v; of
saffron, oz. iss; of the squama stomomatis, oz. j; of gum, oz. ij.
Rain-water. Inject diluted.
_The collyrium containing lxxii ounces of roses._ Of green roses, oz.
lxxii, of calamine, burnt and washed, dr. xxiv; of scraped verdigris, dr.
ij; of spikenard, dr. j; of squama æris, washed, dr. ij; of antimony,
burnt and washed, of opium, of myrrh, of each, dr. iij; of saffron, dr.
viij; of starch, dr. ij; of gum, dr. xxiv. Rain-water.
_The white collyrium from roses._ Of calamine, burnt and washed, of
ceruse, washed, of each, lb. j; of starch, of opium, of tragacanth, of
each, oz. iij; of aloes, oz. iss; of gum, oz. iij; of saffron, oz. iss;
of roses without their nails, oz. vj. Water.
_The collyrium from aloes._ Of calamine, of ceruse, of aloes, of each,
oz. x; of green roses, oz. vj; of starch, oz. iij; of opium, oz. j; of
tragacanth, oz. ij; of gum, oz. iij. Rain-water.
_The saffron collyrium from roses._ Of spikenard, of dried roses, of
aloes, of each, dr. ij; of the white henbane, dr. iss; of saffron, dr.
ivss; of glaucium, oz. vj; of sarcocolla, oz. vj; of opium, dr. ij; of
tragacanth, oz. j. Rain-water.
_The collyrium from roses, of Nilus._ Of tender roses, dr. iv; of
saffron, dr. ij; of poppy, obol. j; of gum, dr. iv. Rain-water.
_The collyrium lynceus for sharpening the sight._ Of calamine, of burnt
copper, of ammoniac perfume, of each, dr. xij; of myrrh, of bloodstone,
of Thebaic opium, of each, dr. vj; of hepatic aloes, of the gall of
bulls, of galbanum, of sagapen, of each, dr. iv; of scraped verdigris, of
opoponax, of sal ammoniac, of each, dr. j; of gum, dr. vj. Rain-water.
_The collyrium Proteus, for the same purposes, and it also attenuates
cicatrices._ Of calamine, of ceruse, of crude chalcitis, of each, dr. xl;
of pepper, dr. iss; of Cyrenaic juice, dr. viij; of saffron, dr. xij; of
Thebaic opium, dr. x; of sagapen, dr. xij; of Ethiopian olive, dr. xij;
of arsenic, of fissile alum, of each, dr. viij; of myrrh, dr. xij; of
ammoniac perfume, dr. xx; of opoponax, dr. xvj; of opobalsam, dr. x; of
gum, dr. xx. In rain-water.
_The collyrium from the juice of fennel._ Of calamine, dr. xvij; of
Indian ink, dr. xvj; of long pepper, dr. xiij, and of white, dr. xij; of
Cyrenaic juice, dr. viij; of opobalsam, dr. vj; of spikenard, dr. vj; of
sagapen, of opoponax, of each, dr. v; of opium, dr. iv; of euphorbium,
dr. j; of gum, dr. j. Triturate with the juice of fennel.
_The collyrium from opobalsam._ Of calamine, of ceruse, of each, dr.
viij; of the oil of unripe olives, dr. iv; of white pepper, dr. xvj; of
opium, dr. iv; of opobalsam, of gum, of each, dr. xvj. Rain-water.
_The collyrium called thalasseros._ Of calamine, oz. viij; of verdigris,
oz. ij; of Indian ink, oz. viij; of white pepper, oz. iv; of Median juice
(assafœtida?) oz. j; of opobalsam, oz. ij; of gum, oz. vj. Water.
_The collyrium harmation._ Of ammoniac perfume, of burnt copper, of the
bark of frankincense, of each. dr. iv; of verdigris, dr. j; of gum, dr.
iv. Rain-water.
_The collyrium malabathrinum, called also isotheon._ Of calamine, dr.
xvj; of copper, burnt and washed, dr. xiv; of opium, of Indian buckthorn,
of Indian leaf, of Indian nard, of saffron, of aloes, of each, dr. ij;
of ceruse, dr. viij; of castor, dr. ij; of myrrh, dr. iv; of acacia, of
antimony, of each, dr. xl. With water. To be used with an egg.
_The thicker collyrium from wine._ Of calamine, of the lapis hæmatitis,
and schistos, of each, dr. xl; of burnt copper, dr. xxx; of chalcitis,
dr. xxxij; of the seed of poppy, dr. xiij. Having boiled the poppies
in water, and strained the juice, add and triturate with palm wine or
Aminæan.
_Another from wine._ Of burnt copper, of the calamine called placitis,
of each oz. ix; of bloodstone, washed, oz. vj; of saffron, of myrrh, of
aloes, of ammoniac perfume, of each, oz. iij; of Indian buckthorn, of
spikenard, of each, oz. j; of white pepper, gr. cl; of the yellow acacia,
oz. ix; of gum, oz. iij. Triturate with Falernian or Aminæan wine.
_The collyrium from two stones for asperities._ Of lapis hæmatitis and
schistos, of cassia, of each, dr. xviij; of copper, of calamine, of
opium, of scraped verdigris, of each, dr. ix; of gum, dr. ix; of burnt
chalcitis, dr. vj. Water.