Chap. VII. Eating Medicines

The medicines, which eat flesh, are the juice of acacia, ebony, verdigrease, copper scales, chrysocolla, Cyprus ashes, nitre, cadmia, litharge, hypocistis, diphryges, salt, orpiment, sulphur, rocket, sandarach, salamander, bastard sponge, flour of copper, chalcitis, copperas, ochre, lime, vinegar, galls, alum, milk of the wild fig-tree, or of sea spurge, which by the Greeks is called tithymallus, animal gall, soot of frankincense, spodium, lentil, honey, olive-leaves, horehound, blood-stone, and the Phrygian, and Asian, and Scissile stones, misy, wine, and vinegar.