pieces and burnt in a pot, until it become red-hot and extinguished
in butter not old, and then again burnt and extinguished in Falernian
wine; and a third time burnt and extinguished in honey, and dried, lb.
j; of burnt copper, of white pepper, of Indian leaf, of each, oz. j; of
antimony, oz. iss: and when all the things are levigated, and you wish
to lay up the medicine, add of the juice of balsam, not thick (for this
prevents the preparation from getting dry) but of the most transparent,
oz. j. Apply it to the eyelids only, not allowing the pencil to touch
the coats, but so that it may only reach the eyelids when opened. They
are to be anointed, not once, but often before food and after it, and
more especially if a sense of ophthalmy be present. It preserves in a
wonderful manner, before every other medicine.
_The dry collyrium from saffron._ Of sarcocolla, dr. viij; of saffron,
dr. iv; of glaucium, dr. iv. Anoint often in the day. Some also add aloes.
_Another dry collyrium for xerophthalmy, sycosis, mortifications, and
hypersarcoma._ Of calamine, dr. x; of chalcitis, dr. xx; of pepper, gr.
xv; of Celtic nard, dr. j; triturate the calamine and chalcitis with
wine, and when dried add the other things and reduce to a fine powder.
_The liquid collyrium from wild carrot._ Of the juice of wild carrot, of
germander, of cresses, and sometimes of othonna, equal parts. The othonna
is the great celandine.
_Another, for sycosis, encanthis, and sarcoma._ Of roasted misy, dr. vj;
of copperas, dr. iv; of Attic honey, sext. j.
_The liquid collyrium panchrestus of Erasistratus_, having wonderful
efficacy, in complaints of the eyes, tonsils, pudenda, and suppurated
ears. Of copper, dr. vj; of roasted misy, of myrrh, of each, dr. iij; of
saffron, dr. iss; of pepper, dr. j; of Chian wine, and of Cretan must, of
each, hemin. iss. Having triturated all the things in the wine until dry,
pour in the must and boil to the consistence of honey.
_Agglutinants for defluxions of the eyes._ Of Samian earth, of manna, of
frankincense, of myrrh, equal parts. Adding to it the white of an egg,
apply to the forehead spread upon linen.
_Another._—Of the seed of henbane, dr. j; of opium, dr. j; of myrrh, dr.
ij; of saffron, dr. j; of pollen, dr. iv; the yelks of two roasted eggs.
Mix with the white of an egg.
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COMMENTARY. Gorræus derives the word collyrium from κολοβὴ ὀυρὰ, i. e.
_cauda trunca_, being expressive of their conical shape. (Defin. Med.)
Blancard prefers the derivation from κωλύω and ῥοῦς. (Lexicon Medicum.)
Oribasius states that collyria were applied—to the eye, to the uterus,
and to fistulous ulcers. (Med. Coll. x, 23.) It is obvious, therefore,
that the ancients used the word in a more general signification than
the moderns do. Le Clerc gives the following description of the ancient
collyria: “Les uns, qui étoient composés de matières sèches, eurent le
nom de ξηροκολλούρια, _collyres secs_. Les autres, où il n’entroit que
des matières liquides, s’appellèrent ὑγροκολλούρια, _collyres humides_
ou _liquides_. Les ingrediens des premières, qui étoient les mêmes que
ceux des collyres _entières_, étoient des poudres _métalliques_, de
_ceruse_, de _pompholyx_, _d’antimoine brulé_, de _vert-de-gris_, de
_chalcitis_, de _cadmia_, et autres semblables. Il y entroit aussi des
poudres tirées des plantes, quelques sucs d’herbes, et quelques gommes,
comme du _saffran_, des _roses_, du suc de _chelidoine_, et de _fenouil_,
de _l’aloes_, de la _myrrh_, de _l’opium_. On mêloit tous ces ingrédiens
et on en formoit des masses que l’on faisait sécher, et dont on faisait
de la poudre lorsqu’on vouloit s’en servir. Les collyres liquides étoient
seulement composés de matières liquides. On prenoit, par exemple, du
_miel d’Attique_, qui étoit estimé le meilleur, de _l’opobalsamum_, avec
du _fiel de vipre_, de _perdrix_, ou de quelque autre animal, et du _suc
de fenouil_. On faisait de cela un mélange, dont on laissoit tomber
quelques gouttes dans les yeux de ceux qui avoient la vue foible, ou
quelque suffusion commençant.” (Hist. de la Méd. iii, ii, 1.)
The Ophthalmic Collyria are treated of with extraordinary accuracy and
minuteness of detail in books iv and v of Galen’s work ‘De comp. med.
sec. locos.’ Notwithstanding the success with which the surgery of the
eye has been cultivated of late, we are confident that the oculists of
the present day might derive still further improvement from an attentive
study of these books. It is to be remarked that several of his collyria,
as well as those of Celsus, contain opium, so that the use of the _vinum
opii_ in modern practice is not an original invention. Many of them
contain very powerful escharotics, such as copper and arsenic, which
indicates a great degree of boldness in ancient practice. Why is arsenic
never used now for the cure of complaints of the eye? Our author’s
account of them, which is mostly taken from Galen, is very accurate and
deserving of consideration.
All the collyria of Celsus are ocular remedies. As he states, they
consist principally of soothing and refreshing medicines variously mixed.
Scribonius Largus describes fully the composition of collyria, which he
divides into the soothing and the acrid. The former consist of saffron,
gum, tragacanth, calamine, antimony, opium and the like. The latter
contain such ingredients as these, burnt copper, verdigris, chalcitis,
misy, alum, ammoniac, and galls.
Myrepsus gives prescriptions for 87 ocular collyria, of every possible
variety of character.
For the Arabian collyria, see particularly Serapion. (De Antidot. vii,
34.) Camphor is an ingredient in many of them.
SECT. XVII.—ON PLASTERS, AND THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ADDED TO THE BOILING
OF THEM, FROM THE WORKS OF ANTYLUS, AND,
_On the proportion of wax to oil._ Of those medicines which are the
ingredients of plasters, some are terrene, as the metals, and some are
kinds of stones and earth, as lees, ashes, and shells; some are oily,
some tears, some soluble, some inspissated juices, some liquid juices;
also a few admit seeds, herbs, and roots. Of plasters themselves, some
are vulnerary, and are called bloody, agglutinative, and plasters for
fractures, which must be composed of desiccants, not in the extreme,
but in the second order complete, and the commencement of the third.
Such are willow, oak, cypress, the barks of pine and pitch-tree, myrrh,
rosemary, bitumen, aloes, birthwort, the ashes of the wood of vine,
ceruse, litharge, and the most of the metals. They are boiled until they
do not stain. The cicatrizing plasters are also composed of desiccants,
but more so than the agglutinants. Such are, burnt copper, the squama
æris and ferri, verdigris, chalcitis, the flower of burnt copper, alum,
gall, molybdæna, calamine, pumice-stone, and the shells. The discutient
are formed from the calefacient and moderately desiccative, such as
birthwort, thapsia, old oil, and the oil of radishes, honey, opobalsam,
pitch, turpentine, galbanum, burnt salts, and the flower of salt. The
emollient are formed from litharge, fats, marrow, old oil, bee-glue,
ammoniac, storax, galbanum, bdellium, mastich, turpentine, the root of
marsh-mallows, and of the wild cucumber. The desiccative are made of
sulphur, natron, salts, ashes, bitumen. The epispastic are formed from
salts, natron, bee-glue, verdigris, leaven, dung, sulphur, turpentine.
The digestive are composed of wax, ladanum, dried grape, amomum, saffron,
frankincense, pitch, Egyptian mastich, storax, myrrh, galbanum, butter,
œsypum, fats, verdigris. The suppurative are formed from water and oil,
pollen, wheaten bread, chondrus, butter, the fat of swine and of calves,
frankincense, pitch, rosin. The paregoric are made of litharge, ceruse,
oil, dill, camomile, starch, white wax. The bloody-plasters (as they are
called) are to be applied when the wounds and fractures are recent, and
to co-operate with them, sponges soaked in oxycrate are to be bound on,
above the pledgets, and are to be loosened on the third day, and the
same pledgets and not others, again applied. The emollient, epispastic,
discutient, and suppurative are applied after the use of cataplasms and
cerates. But the suppurative agree best at the commencement and in cases
of extreme pain. Of the boiling of them we will speak afterwards.
_The plaster tetrapharmacon, basilicon._ Of wax, of Colophonian rosin, of
pitch, of bull’s suet, equal parts.
_The plaster from the juice of linseed for discussing and breaking._ Of
old oil, lb. ij; of wax, oz. xx; of Colophonian rosin, of axunge, of
each, lb. iss; of litharge, lb. j; of ceruse, oz. vj; of the juice of
linseed, oz. vj; of pollen, oz. j; of frankincense, oz. iv.
_The plaster from honey._ Of litharge, of wax, of oil, of each, lb. iv;
of turpentine, lb. ij; of honey, of axunge, of each, lb. j. Another. Of
litharge, lb. vj; of oil, lb. vss; of Colophonian rosin, lb. viiss; of
wax, lb. iiiss; of honey, lb. iij.
_The diachylon, or plaster from juices._ Of litharge, lb. vj; of oil,
in summer, lb. vij, but in winter, lb. ix; of fenugreek, sext. ss; of
linseed, sext. ss; of marsh-mallows, lb. iij. Boil the marsh-mallows and
seeds in sext. xx of water, until but a little be left, and of it, mix
lb. iv to the oil, and boil until the bubbles cease; then sprinkle with
the litharge finely levigated, and boil at a gentle fire until it no
longer stain.
_The plaster from pollen._ Of fine flour, of ammoniac perfume, of each,
lb. j; of pine-rosin, of wax, of axunge, of each, lb. iij; of the juice
of linseed, q. s.
_The botanicon, or plaster from herbs._ Of dock, of sordid oil, of the
anchusa called the Chærospelethos (it is the Onoclean), of the plantain
which has seven fibres (Plantago major?), of each, oz. iij; of oil, lb.
vj; of axunge, lb. vj. The herbs, being boiled in the oil, are thrown
away, but the other things are melted in the oil.
_The plaster from king’s-spears._ Of the juice of the root of asphodel,
lb. j; of oil of roses, of oil of camomile, of the fat of geese, of each,
oz. ij; of axunge, oz. iij; of wax, oz. iv.
_The leaven-plaster for breaking abscesses._ Of leaven, of axunge, of
each, oz. vj; of salts, oz. iv; of pine-rosin, oz. iij; of wax, oz. iv;
of aphronitrum, oz. j; of ammoniac perfume, oz. ij; of honey, oz. vj; of
soap, oz. ij.
_The dothiene, or plaster for furunculus._ Of ammoniac perfume, lb. j; of
Alexandrian natron, oz. vj; of aphronitrum, oz. vj; of swine’s seam, lb.
ij; of wax, lb. ij; of turpentine, lb. j; of old oil, oz. j; of vinegar,
q. s.
_The plaster from soapwort for discussing strumous swellings._ Of
litharge, of soapwort, of birthwort, of each, oz. iv; of galbanum, of
squama æris, of aloes, of each, oz. j; of manna, oz. ij; of ammoniac
perfume, oz. vj; of pine-rosin, oz. xvj; of vinegar of squills, sext. iv;
for the trituration of the powders.
_The plaster smilium for abscesses._ Of old oil, lb. iss; of litharge,
of red natron, of sal ammoniac, of the lye of figs called protostacton,
of rosin, of each, lb. j; of galbanum, of ammoniac perfume, of each, oz.
iij; of copperas, oz. iv; of wax, oz. vj; of verdigris, of opoponax, of
each, oz. j; of vinegar, q. s. Boil the litharge and the verdigris in the
oil until it cease to stain, and then add the other things.
_The plaster from garlic for breaking abscesses._ Of wax, oz. vj; of
Colophonian rosin, oz. iv; of pine-rosin, oz. iij; of bull’s suet, oz.
iv; of yellow natron, oz. iss; the heads of garlic cleansed, xx; of oil,
sext. ss. Having boiled the garlic in the oil, throw it away, and mix the
other things.
_The discutient plaster from apyranon._ Of the fat of geese and of
pheasants, of each, oz. iij; of old oil, oz. xxvj; of fleawort, oz. iij;
of nettle-seed, of the green root of apyranum, of each, lb. j; of white
wax, oz. x; of diachylon plaster, oz. ij; of turpentine, oz. j. Having
divided the root into small pieces, macerate in the oil with the fleawort
and nettle-seed a night and a day; and then having boiled, throw them
away, and mixing the soluble substances with the oil, dissolve.
_The wheat-plaster for hardness and scirrhous swellings._ Of
marsh-mallows, of palm-nuts, or of Nicolan dates, of each, lb. ij; of
fenugreek, of linseed, of each, sext. ss; of camomile, of melilot, of the
bark of palms, of each, oz. vj; of Aminæan wine, sext. vj; of litharge,
lb. j; of ceruse, of Colophonian rosin, of each, lb. ij; of wax, of
turpentine, of each, lb. j; of old oil, lb. v; of water, lb. ij; of dried
bread broken down and sifted, lb. v. The juice of the herbs is extracted
by boiling in wine, and the bread is soaked in it; on the day following,
the litharge and ceruse are triturated in the water, and afterwards the
oil is added and boiled until it ceases to stain; and then the other
things are added. Being removed from the fire, the bread is added and
stirred strongly. To these are then added, of scraped verdigris, of the
flower of salt, of each, oz. vj; of iris, of birthwort, of each, oz. vj;
of turpentine, lb. j.
_The plaster Pelarion, from the dross of silver, for excoriations and
the like._ Of wax, of the fat of bulls, of each, oz. v; of the dross of
silver, oz. vj; of Colophonian rosin, oz. iv; of pitch, of oil, of each,
oz. ij; the dry dross is triturated in wine or the juice of fenugreek.
When the dross is not at hand we may use molybdæna.
_The plaster from marshmallows, in gouty cases and other indurations._
Of the juices of fenugreek, linseed, and marshmallows, of each, lb. iij;
of oil, lb. ij; having boiled it until the juice be consumed, add of
Colophonian rosin, lb. j; of turpentine, lb. j; of the tear of ivy, oz.
iij. When dissolved, having taken it from the fire, add of wax, lb. j, of
galbanum, oz. iv, both pounded together, and having dissolved, stir with
a spatula.
_The plaster kissinon, or ivy plaster, for wounded nerves and punctures,
especially chronic._ Of red squama, oz. ivss; of frankincense, oz. j; of
misy, oz. iss; of chalcitis, dr. iv; of vinegar, vj. Triturate in the
summer sun until consumed, when having dissolved, of wax, oz. viij; of
oil, oz. xviij (“deest aliquid”); mix. But if a nerve be divided and laid
bare, instead of the galbanum, add of turpentine, oz. ij.
_The melanchlorus, for the same purposes, and for bleeding wounds._ Of
pomegranate rind, of burnt copper, of galls, of round birthwort, of sal
ammoniac, of squama æris, of fissile and liquid alum (but some instead of
the liquid use the round), of iris, of misy, of copperas, of chalcitis,
of scraped verdigris, of calamine, of aloes, of myrrh, of frankincense,
of the root of all-heal, of litharge, of ceruse, equal parts. All of
which are triturated in the sun during the season of summer, with vinegar
for a sufficient number of days, and formed into trochisks. It is made
into a plaster thus: of the medicine, oz. ij; of wax, oz. vj; of oil, oz.
viij; when for wounded nerves the oil is to be old, but otherwise the
common.
_The plaster from groundsel._ Of the juice of groundsel, lb. ij; of
old oil, lb. iss; of oil of privet, oz. iv; of old axunge, lb. j; of
turpentine, oz. j; of galbanum, oz. ss; of pine rosin, oz. vj; of
verdigris, of frankincense, of the medicine œsypum, of each, oz. j; of
squama æris, scr. viij; of wax, oz. x; of the old pitch of ships, oz.
xiv. Boil the oil with the juice to the consistence of the sordes of the
oil in baths, with swine’s seam, and triturate the powders with oil of
privet; beat the galbanum with the wax, and put it into a pot. And if the
pitch of the ships be dry, having triturated and strained it, weigh and
sprinkle it. If it cannot be triturated let it be strained, with part of
the oil dissolved, and then let all the things be mixed.
_The discutient plaster of Mnasæus._ Of wax, of axunge, of each, lb. j;
of Colophonian rosin, oz. vj; of litharge, lb. ij; of fine wax, lb. iv.
_The Ariobarzanian plaster, for the same affections._ Of litharge, oz.
iss; of ceruse, lb. j, oz. v; of sea-water, oz. xxv; of old oil, lb. iss;
of buccina burnt, oz. viiss; of yellow wax, oz. ix; of turpentine, oz.
vj; of frankincense, oz. iij, scr. iiiss.
_The plaster from dracunculus_, or _dragon-herb_. Of wax, of Colophonian
rosin, of dried pitch, of axunge, of rosin, of each, lb. iv; of ammoniac
perfume, lb. ij; of the root of dracunculus, lb. v. The root being dried
and triturated is sprinkled, with the other things dissolved.
_The plaster called Psittacion._ Of wax, of Colophonian rosin, of swine’s
seam, of the tender leaves of henbane, or the juice of them, equal parts.
But in Alexandria, of wax, lb. iiss; of henbane, lb. ij; of axunge, lb.
iiss; of Colophonian rosin, lb. x. This is more discutient.
_The myrtle plaster, or emplastrum myrsinatum._ Of litharge, of ceruse,
of sandyx, of lead, burnt and washed, of each, oz. j; of wax, oz. vj; of
myrtle oil, lb. j; of wine, q. s.
_The plaster from ceruse, or from eggs._ Of white wax, oz. vj; of rose
oil, lb. iss; of litharge, oz. ij; of ceruse, oz. ij; of starch, oz. iij;
the whites of v eggs.
_The plaster Parygron, of Oribasius._ Of litharge, oz. iss; of ceruse,
oz. iss; of wax, oz. iv; of swine’s seam, oz. vij; of Colophonian rosin,
oz. ix; of the juice of linseed, of oil, of each, oz. x. It answers
admirably for fissures of the heels. But, says he, it must be kept from
ulcers, for it becomes fetid.
_The epulotic plaster from calamine._ Of burnt chalcitis, oz. ij; of
calamine, of manna, of each, oz. j; of wax, of colophony, of myrtle oil,
of each, lb. j; of wine, q. s.
_The palm plaster, or emplastrum palmulatum._ Of old axunge, lb. ij; of
old oil, lb. iij; of litharge, lb. iij; of crude chalcitis, oz. vj. First
the chalcitis is to be levigated in a proper vessel, or in the sun. After
it has become of the consistence of the lees of the oil in baths, add the
litharge, previously triturated, and afterwards the suet. After they are
properly triturated, boil with a gentle fire until it cease to stain,
stirring with palm branches.
_The plaster from alkanet, for burns._ Of white wax, oz. ix; of rose oil,
oz. xviij; let these be melted, and sprinkle upon them of the dried root
of the purple alkanet, finely levigated, oz. iv. _Another._ Of the green
root of alkanet, of the hair of horehound, of each, oz. iij. Boil in oz.
ix of oil, and throw away. Add to the oil v oz. of white wax and dissolve.
_The plaster called pompholygeron._ Of pompholyx, oz. ij; of litharge,
oz. iij; to be triturated with the juice of linseed, and then to be added
when dissolved and cooled; of wax, oz. vj; of the grease of geese or
domestic fowls, oz. ij; of chamomile, oz. vj.
_The anodyne plaster phycotyche, for the fundament._ Of frankincense,
oz. xvij; of myrrh, oz. vij; of opium, dr. iv; of fissile alum, dr. ij;
of butter, dr. iv; the yelks of iv eggs roasted; of calamine, burnt
and washed, dr. iv; of pompholyx, dr. vj; of Tuscan wax, oz. viij; of
the grease of geese, dr. xvj; of stag’s marrow, dr. xj; of lead, burnt
and washed, dr. viij; of bloodstone, dr. j; of liquid œsypum, dr. iv.
Triturate the powders with Italian wine, and mix the soluble substances.
_The plaster of Amythaon, for distorted and torn joints. It is also
epispastic._ Of ammoniac, of wax, of bdellium, of each, dr. viij; of
turpentine, of Illyrian iris, of galbanum, of each, dr. xx.
_The Aristophanian emollient plaster._ Of pitch, lb. iv; of the pitch of
ships, lb. ij; of wax, lb. j; of opoponax, oz. j; of vinegar, hemin. j.
_The plaster from molybdæna, for hot affections._ Of molybdæna, oz. iv;
of litharge, oz. ij; of ceruse, oz. ij; of wax, oz. viij; of myrtle oil,
lb. ij. Triturate the dry things with wine.
_The plaster coracon from oxymel, for the pudendum and spreading sores._
Of galls, oz. ij; of squama æris, oz. iss; of chalcitis, of frankincense,
of each, oz. j. Triturate with vinegar for a sufficient number of days;
then mix of honey, oz. v. But having made separately a cerate from oz. ij
of myrtle or rose oil, and of the seam of bulls, oz. viij; of wax, oz.
iv; of turpentine, oz. j; having mixed, triturate together, and use like
that from paper, both by means of an instrument for extracting pus and by
a pledget.
_The plaster from vinegar and oil._ Of litharge, p. j; of oil, of
vinegar, of each, p. ij, some make it iij.
_The plaster from agate, being discutient and emollient._ Of agate stone,
half burnt, oz. iss; of wax, oz. v; of roasted rosin, oz. iij; of oil,
oz. j.
_The plaster Isis, for bloody wounds, being agglutinative, incarnative,
and cathartic._ Of squama æris, of burnt copper, of round birthwort, of
each, dr. viij; of fissile alum, dr. vj; of ammoniac salts, dr. viij;
of frankincense, dr. viij; of ammoniac perfume, dr. viij; of myrrh, dr.
xij; of aloes, dr. xij; of galbanum, dr. xij; of the juice of the root of
dracunculus, dr. viij; of wax, lb. j; of Colophonian rosin, lb. ij; of
old oil, oz. iij; of vinegar, q. s.
_The plaster Athena, for foul ulcers, infarctions, and wounded nerves._
Of pomegranate rind, of burnt copper, of galls, of round and long
birthwort, of sal ammoniac, of ammoniac perfume; of squama æris, of
fissile alum and of round, of iris, of misy, of copperas, of chalcitis,
of scraped verdigris, of calamine, of aloes, of myrrh, of frankincense,
of bee glue, of galbanum, of each, oz. j; of wax, dr. _cc_; of pitch, dr.
_cc_; of Colophonian rosin, dr. _c_; of oil, oz. vj; of vinegar, q. s.
_The agglutinative plaster from dittany, for the bites of dogs and all
sorts of ulcers._ Of litharge, lb. ij; of squama æris, oz. iss; of old
oil, sext. ij; of diphryges, oz. iij; of gentian, oz. iss; of birthwort,
of scraped verdigris, of each, oz. iss; of dittany, of burnt copper, oz.
iss; of Colophonian rosin, lb. j; of manna, of galbanum, of aloes, oz.
iij; of ammoniac perfume, oz. vj; of bee glue, oz. ij; of common wax,
oz. viss. The oil must first be boiled with the litharge, until it cease
to stain. Then taking it off the fire, we are to add the verdigris and
squama, and again boil until it cease to stain; and again taking it off
the fire, add the rosin, the ammoniac sifted, and stir until it cease
boiling; and place it at the fire, and when it boils but a little add the
copper and diphryges and boil again until it thicken; then add the common
wax, and boiling until it cease to stain, put in the bee glue, and after
a little the aloes, manna, dittany, birthwort, and gentian, are to be
sprinkled finely levigated when but a little cooled.
_The Barbaric plaster, for bloody sores, and for promoting the formation
of callus in fractures._ Of Judæan asphaltos, of dried pitch, of wax,
of rosin, of each, lb. j; of turpentine, oz. ij; of litharge, oz. j; of
ceruse, oz. iss; of manna, oz. ij; of opoponax, oz. ij; of myrrh, oz. ij;
of oil, oz. iij; of vinegar, q. s.
_The agglutinative plaster from willows, for hæmoptysis and empyema when
applied to the chest._ Of misy, of chalcitis, of verdigris, of ceruse,
of galls, of fissile alum and of round, of melanteria, of each, oz. vj;
of wax, lb. ij; of pine-rosin, lb. ij; of pitch, lb. ij; of pomegranate
rind, oz. vj; of asphaltos, lb. ij; of willow-leaves, lb. ij; of the oil
of roses, oz. iv; of copperas, oz. vj; of vinegar, q. s. Some add also of
turpentine, oz. ix.
_The plaster of Nicolaus, for bloody wounds and an agglutinant of
sinuses._ Of squama æris, oz. iv; of scraped verdigris, oz. iss; of
litharge, oz. iss; of long and of round birthwort, of each, oz. j; of
fissile and of round alum, of copperas, of each, oz. j; of sulphur vivum,
oz. j; of the gall omphacitis, oz. iv; of ammoniac salts, oz. j; of misy,
oz. j; of marjoram, oz. j; of chamæleon, oz. j; of the calamine called
racemosa, oz. j; of white hellebore, oz. j; of hog’s-fennel, oz. iij;
of parsley-seed, oz. ij; of the root of comfrey, oz. iss; of ceruse,
oz. iss; of the juice of mandragora, oz. ss; of chalcitis, oz. iss; of
Samian aster, oz. j; of male frankincense, oz. j; of aloes, oz. j; of
bdellium, oz. ij; of Thebaic opium, oz. ij; of troglodytic myrrh, oz.
ss; of ammoniac perfume, oz. j; of fenugreek, oz. vj; of the juice of
perdicias, oz. vj; of yellow wax, lb. iij; of Colophonian rosin, lb. ij;
of pine-rosin, lb. j; of bitumen, lb. j; of mastich, oz. vj; of black
pitch, lb. ij; of old oil, lb. j; of storax, oz. j; of opoponax, oz. iss;
of vinegar, q. s.
_The Icesian plaster, for strumæ, abscesses, the spleen, joints, and
ischiatic disease._ Of litharge, dr. cxx; of old oil, sext. ij; of
vinegar, sext. j; of verdigris, dr. iss; of the bark of the pine, dr.
viij; of chamæleon, with the root, dr. xvj; of euphorbium, dr. xvj; of
the juice of hypocistis, dr. xvj; of bee-glue, dr. xvj; of myrrh, dr.
xvj; of elicampane, dr. xvj; of pellitory, dr. xvj; of wax, lb. iij.