[p. 341]placed on the fire until the whole be consumed;
having reduced this to a fine powder, and sprinkled it on the sore,
apply the bandage in the same manner. Another powder for the same
ulcers:-The black chamaeleon, when prepared with the juice of the
fig. It is to be prepared roasted, and alkanet mixed with it. Or,
pimpernel, and Egyptian alum roasted, and sprinkle on them the Orchomenian
powder. For spreading ulcers:-Alum, both the Egyptian roasted, and
the Melian; but the part is to be first cleansed with roasted natron
and sponged; and the species of alum called chalcitis roasted. It
is to be roasted until it catch fire.
Part 11
For old ulcers which occur on the fore part of the legs; they become
bloody and black:-Having pounded the flower of the melilot and mixed
it with honey, use as a plaster. For nerves (tendons?) which have
been cut asunder:-Having pounded, sifted, and mixed with oil the roots
of the wild myrtle, bind on the part; and the herb cinquefoil (it
is white and downy, and more raised above the ground than the black
cinquefoil), having pounded this herb in oil bind it on the part,
and then remove it on the third day.
Part 12
Emollients (?):-These medicines are to be used in winter rather than
in summer. Emollient medicines which make the cicatrices fair:-Pound
the inner mucous part of the squill and pitch, with fresh swine's
seam, and a little oil, and a little resin, and ceruse. And the grease
of a goose, fresh swine's seam, and squill, and a little oil. The
whitest wax, fresh clean grease, or squill and white oil, and a little
resin. Wax, swine's seam (old and fresh), and oil, and verdigris,
and squill and resin. Let there be two parts of the old grease to
the fresh, and of the other things, q. s. Having melted the grease
that is fresh, pour it into another pot; having levigated plumbago
finely and sifted it, and mixed them together, boil and stir at first;
boil until when poured upon the ground it concretes; then taking it
off the fire, pour it all into another vessel, with the exception
of the stony sediment, and add resin and stir, and mix a little oil
of juniper, and what has been taken off. In all the emollient medicines
to which you add the resin, when you remove the medicine from the
fire, pour in and mix the resin while it is still warm. Another:-Old
swine's seam, wax, and oil, the dried shavings of the lotus, frankincense,
plumbago,-namely, of the frankincense one part, and of the other one
part, and of the shavings of the lotus one part; but let there be
two parts of the old grease, one of wax, and of fresh swine's seam
one part. Another:-Or old swine's seam along with the fresh grease
of a goat; when cleaned, let it retain as little as possible of its
membrane: having triturated or pounded it smooth, pour in oil, and
sprinkle the lead with the spodium and half the shavings of the lotus.
Another:-Swine's seam, spodium, blue chalcitis, oil.
Part 13
For Burns:-You must boil the tender roots of the ilex, and if their
bark be very thick and green, it must be cut into small parts, and
having poured in white wine, boil upon a gentle fire, until it appear
to you to be of the proper consistence, so as to be used for a liniment.
And it may be prepared in water after the same manner. Another, not
corrosive:-Old swine's
