Chap. IV. Medicines for Opening Wounds

Chap. III. Medicines for Promoting a Suppuration.

Maturating and suppurating medicines are nard, myrrh, costus, balsam, galbanum, propolis, storax, both the soot of frankincense and its bark, bitumen, pitch, sulphur, resin, suet, fat, and oil.

Wounds are opened like mouths in bodies, which in Greek is called anastomoun, by cinnamon, balsam, panaces, long cyperus, penny-royal, white violet flowers, bdellium, galbanum, turpentine and pine resin, propolis, old oil, pepper, pellitory, ground pine, stavesacre, sulphur, alum, seed of rue.