Roman oculists' medicine stamps and collyria / [C.J.S. Thompson].

  • Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862-1943
Date:
[1920?]
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Credit: Roman oculists' medicine stamps and collyria / [C.J.S. Thompson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AM. 4, 1 (K. 241G), reverse, top broken. {To turn grey hair black.) 3. ... gall of a black ox (v. gall of a snake), gall of a scorpion, gall of a pig, punpul[la] . . . , suadu, thou shalt reduce, bray ; these five drugs in equal parts [thou shalt mix], . . . [which have been] buried (?) take up and together mix * 1; in the oil of a cypress of the cemetery . . . press on his [head], seven days anoint, and the grey hair [will turn black]. 7. (Cf. 5, 1, 5.) If a man’s head in his youth is full of grey hairs, to darken the grey hair 2 . . . into oil thou shalt put until they die 3 . . . bray, in oil of the cypress of a cemetery thou shalt mix, anoint . . . one hundred days thou shalt anoint . . . , the charm seven times thou shalt recite . . . , thou shalt pound, therein refined oil . . . [under] the stars thou shalt set it, (on) his head press it, bind on for seven days and he shall recover. 14. (Cf. 5, 1, 13.) [If a man’s head] . . . [thou shalt take] the head of a black raven,4 the head of a stork 5 . . . these [drugs] thou shalt mix in oil, anoint his head ....... of his urine (?) thou shalt take, pine-gum . . . together thou shalt bray, in almond-oil thou shalt mix, put . . . and his hair shall grow. 19. {Three lines of charm, mutilated.) 22. [Incantation : When] the hair of the head is not healthy. 23. ... in alajypanu-heQT thou shalt put, heat in an oven, wash his head . . . leek-seed, kilkil-seed 6 together thou shalfc bray . . . , mix, anoint him, and there shall be no grey hair. 26. ... nigella, hyoscyamus, seed of poppy . . . [bissur Ifatani, these six drugs thou shalt dry, bray, ... on her skull . . . \ 1 Tuhasa, Arab. “ mix ”, but it must be in a peculiar way. “ The leaf of solarium tuhasa ” (15, 6, 5) ; “ garlic (?) tuhasa, and pour into his ears ” (36, 1P 11) ; “ the leaf of tamarisk tuhasa (9, 1, 32). Cf. 14, 3, 7 and 25, 6, ii, 13, where it varies with RAT. Ana sarti pisiti sullumu, like vsa-mi ddmi parasi(si) “ drug for stopping blood ” (CT. xiv, 36, 79-7-8, 22, 3), etc. 3 Are we to supply here “ bees ”, as in SM. ii, 691 ? 4 Aot locust ” ; the “ black ” is enough to determine this. “ The fat of a black raven ” is used for the same purpose in SM. ii, 691. Tor these drugs for hair cf. CT. xxiii, 35, 38. eak.eak.hu must be the rak-rak-ku = la-ka-la-ka of CT. xiv, 6 r. 8. Possibly cassia, but more probably another plant having a black seed ; see AH. § 10 ag.