Since even the habit must be warmed, it will be proper to use a
preparation of a heating nature when in the bath. Let it contain
calamint, marjoram (sampsuchum), hyssop, bay berries, rosemary, the
stone pyrites, salts, the burnt lees of wine, nitre, pumice-stone, each
in proper proportion; also a small quantity of mustard, stavesacre, and
the seeds of the thymelæa (granum cnidium). After the bath, use a warm
restorative (Acopum), and drink a yellow old wine, having taken a sweet
drink (_propoma_) from wine and honey, pepper, rue, and the like.
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COMMENTARY. All this Section is taken from Oribasius, excepting the part
relating to the draught or Propoma. The nature of the Propoma will be
explained in the Seventh Book. We may just mention that it was a sort of
_liqueur_.