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

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

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    4. ... in white (?) mountain-honey and water thou shalt wash and he shall recover. 5. ... in oil thou shalt anoint, *calendula, fennel ... in water thou shalt wash his head, in oil anoint . . . 7. [His head] thou shalt wash in water (?) and bray fennel, anoint in oil. 8. ... in mountain-honev thou shalt anoint . . . %/ No. 24. AM. 6, 9 (K. 10212), top broken. 3. ... thou shalt [boil], spread on a skin, [bind on and he shall recover]. 4. ... head, are-(plant),1 kankadu-(plant) thou shalt dry . . . [in] barga- oil mix, continuously [apply]. 6. If a man his head . . . ,2 and his body hurt [him], thou shalt dry . . . , pound, (and) strain ; flour of gu-gal, flour of gu du, flour of ... in lees of beer thou shalt knead [and apply]. 9. If ditto, dried (?) mucilage (?) of sesame, fir-gum, pine-gum . . . [thou shalt apply]. 10. If a man’s head get a pain, roses 3 . . . [If ?] his head take a pain, licorice-root ... in the morning without a meal let him drink.4 No. 25. AM. 7, 3 (K. 10562), top broken.5 1. If ditto, vinegar,6 billu-wine . . . 1 Cf. 39, 1, 38, «a-ri-e. 2 Ud-da-at (?) (or ud-da-sir (?) ). See No. 18. 3 Of. 64, 1, 15 ... su a-hi-iz Jcam-ti kasi zir usimri . . . 4 Cf. 64, 1, 4. 5 Joined to K. 7953, pis. 64-65, after this was in type. 6 Tdbatu, a.gestin.na. Kuchler (83) and Del. HWB. (298) ‘''water mixed with wine ”. But the ideogram really means “ water (liquid) of wine ” ; water with wine would have very little value in the medical receipts in which a.gestin.na is prescribed. My own view is that it represents vinegar, acetic acid in its simple form. Vinegar occurs more than a hundred times in SM., and yet we have as yet identified no proper word for it in Assyrian. Nothing, as far as I know, has been compared to the Syr. halla, but conclusive is btl.lal = tdbatu and ensu (SAI. 3157, 3156; Meissner, MV AG. 1913,2,20, 17), the latter being obviously rain “ vinegar ”. In a case where the patient voids urine “ like that of an ass ”, followed by blood, the physician is to introduce two (or three) shekels of gum of *galbanum mixed with ^ ha of a . gestin .na up the penis (66, 7, 18). This mixture is made for the good reason that acetic acid is a powerful solvent of gum-resins (i.e. * galbanum) {PC. xxvi, 342). A similar small