Watery discharges from the ears may be dried up by applying to them wool
with alum, or with wine and honey, or by an injection of old wine either
alone or mixed with saffron.
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COMMENTARY. Oribasius, Aëtius, Avicenna, and Haly Abbas recommend
the same treatment, which would seem to be very proper. Alsaharavius
recommends wool soaked in a solution of alum, and injections, consisting
of solutions of nitre (soda) in vinegar. Rhases makes mention of nearly
the same applications. (De Morb. Infant. c. 9.)