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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    4. For ditto, seed of leeks, ** ricinus, “ black ’’-plant (Xanthium strumarium ?) together thou shalt bray, [apply]. 5. If a man’s head gets an itch, thou shalt bray flour of corn, rub on . . . Thou shalt remove his (its) ritrittu (scab ?), wash in beer : powdered (bark) of box thou shalt apply, bind on . . . powdered (bark) of box, powdered (bark) of elammaku, powdered (bark) of the “ all-unguent ” tree ... on the front thou shalt remove (?), thou shalt press, thou shalt reduce suadu (and) cedar (and) bray (them) ... in rose-water thou shalt wash : the powdered (bark) of box, the powdered (bark) of elammaku, the powdered (bark) of the “ all-unguent ” tree . . . 10. If ditto, thou shalt shave his head, thou shalt anoint (it) with fish-oil,* 1 before he sleeps 2 thou shalt remove (it), the root of ... , the root of kurnahu, bed (dregs) of gar.ein.na, lupins, seed of kutrate . . . together thou shalt bray, with cattle-urine thou shalt bind his head, in beer thou shalt wash, in rose-water thou shalt . . . , seed of viiex agnus castus, seed of mandrake, linseed, seed of sumach, Pi.Pi-fennel juice, . . . , turmeric, saggilalu-Mk&\\, juice of ma-eres-ma-U plant . . . thou shalt dry, pound, (and) strain, in rose¬ water knead, again dry, pound, (and) strain, in beer . . . : for three days thou shalt not take (it) off ; on the fourth day, when thou takest it off, in hot urine thou shalt wash . . . No. 20. AM. 6, 1 (K. 11544), top broken. 2. ... scarlet anemones thou shalt bray, [apply to] his head . . . [ejkidu without salt thou shalt bray, in milk thou shalt [knead] . . . [apply] the scarlet anemones to his head, . . . cool [it]; then the aforesaid ekidu without salt . . . ; [thou shalt bind] on his head in a bandage . . . thou shalt not take (?) his . . . 8. ... flour of spelt-corn in water thou shaft knead, bind his head . . . 9. ... sulphur, salicornia-alkali, cantharides (?) ... these [drugs] together in the shade thou shalt dry, pound, [strain] . . . for dyspnoea, for which alum is also drunk, 1. 24. Drunk in Lutz, AJSL. xxxvi, 80, 1. 1. Its value appears to be sah (?) (kit (?), Zi7(?) )-mu (VJR. 27, 19, e-/). Pliny (xxxv, 52) speaks of several kinds of alum, the white and the black, both used for dyeing ; but Bostock in his note (loc. cit.) quotes a Dr. Pereira, who says that Pliny did not distinguish alum from sulphate of iron, since he calls one white and the other black. Are we to consider im.is.mi.kttr.ra = sulphate of iron ? 1 in.kil = saman nuni, SAI. 3701. 2 Cf. ki.na, 47, 1, 1.