Of Medicine, in Eight Books Papyras Classics

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Chapter 107

Chap. XV. Emollients

Chap. XII. Evacuating and Drawing Medicines.

Evacuant and drawing are labdanum, round alum, ebony, lintseed, omphacium, gall, chalcites, bdellium, turpentine and pine resin, propolis, dry figs boiled, pigeon’s dung, pumice, meal of darnel, green figs boiled in water, elaterium, bay-berries, nitre, and salt.

Chap. XIII. Lenients.

Lenients for what is exasperated are spodium, ebony, gum, white of eggs, milk, tragacanth.

Chap. XIV. Incarning Medicines.

Pine resin, attic ochre, honey, asteriace, wax, and butter, incarn and fill up ulcers.

Emollients are, calcined copper, Eretrian earth, nitre, poppy-tears, ammoniacum, bdellium, wax, suet, fat, oil, dry figs, sesamum, mellilot, the root and seed of narcissus, rose-leaves, coagulum, yolk of egg raw, bitter almonds, all marrow, antimony, pitch, boiled snails, hemlock-seed, dross of lead, by the Greeks called scoria molybdou, panaces, cardamom, galbanum, resin, stavesacre, storax, iris, balsam, dust of the gymnasium, sulphur, butter, rue.