Chap. I. Medicines for Stopping Blood

A bleeding is stopped by copperas, which the Greeks call chalcanthus, chalcitis, acacia, lycium with water, frankincense, aloes, gum, calcined lead, leeks, blood herb, either Cimolian, or potter’s chalk, misy, cold water, wine, vinegar, allum, melinum, scales both of iron and copper; and of this last there are two species, the one of common copper, the other of red copper.