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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    2. Again, river-bed (or, lees of beer ?) . . . 3. If ditto, scabies thou shalt cover (?) . . . 4. If ditto, vinegar, billu-wine . . . 5. If a man’s head . . . river-bed (or, lees of beer ?) . . . B. Diseases of the Eyes. No. 26. AM. 8, 1 ; AM. 12, 8 ; AM. 20, 2 (K. 2570, etc.), top broken. (a) ... thou shalt reduce, bray . . . (b) [If a man’s eyes] ... its leaf, salicornia-alkali thou shalt bray, in rose-water knead, [bind on] : . . . bray, beat up in fat, in equal parts bray, [mix] in curd, [apply]. (c) If a man’s [eyes] are sick and matter (?) is secreted on his temples, [thou shalt spread] tanners’ verdigris1 on vellum (?), on [his eyes] bind: bray copper-dust, arsenic,2 yellow sulphide of arsenic, mix in curd, apply to his eyes . . . (d) When a man’s eyes are sick and are inflamed, thou shalt bray dust of a copper saucepan in curd, apply to his eyes ; a bronze blade ... in water thou shalt wash . . . once, twice, thrice apply to his eyes, lolium in b.eer- dregs thou shalt knead, apply. (e) [If a man’s eyes] ... [in a (?)] saucepan thou shalt reduce, pound, bray in sweet curd. 2. When thou doest . . . apply to his eyes. quantity is used (41, 1, iv, 21). a.gesttn.na is prescribed with other drugs for using on the head (65, 5, 8) (of. vinegar externally for the head as a medium with other drugs, SM. ii, 41, 63, 64, 65). It is also used for the temples (20, 1, iv, 39). It is boiled in a pot, and then many plants are introduced into it to make an enema (49, 6 r. 6). It is used in a mouth-wash (28, 7, 7) (cf. SM. ii, 187, etc.); for toothache (23, 1, 4) (cf. SM. ii, 186). Note 50, 3, 4, “ once, twice (or) thrice the lolium . . . which vinegar has not destroyed he shall eat ” (sa a.gestin.na la sul-pu-tu ilelealp1). “ Wine-water ” could hardly have the strength necessary to “ destroy ” anything, whatever the object of the verb may have been here. (Cf. 66, 7, 22, [a.gestin.na.d]a'N'.ga tuballal e-nu-ma tak ( = usalpit l)-su, etc.) “Strong vinegar,” a . gestint .na . dan . ga, is still more indicative : it is a medium for 25 drugs and aromatics (84, 1, ii, 4) ; in 57, 5 r. 3, J lea of alkali, J lea of “ strong vinegar ”, 5 shekels of salt, 5 shekels of **ammi, boiled in Jeurunnu-beer and with oil added to it, is to be poured on (up ?) the anus. 1 “ Shoemaker’s vitriol,” SM. ii, 114. 2 See 1. 23.