Manuscript notices of this Bath medicine-stamp exist in the Minute-books of the Antiquarian Society for 1744 (vol. iv. p. 210), and for 1757 (vol. viii. p. 29); the last is with an impression taken with ink from the inscriptions. For copies of these I am deeply indebted to the polite kindness of Mr. Akerman, the distinguished secretary to the Society. The outline in Pl. II., No. V., presents a copy of a rude drawing of the Bath stamp given in the Minute-book of the Antiquarian Society for April 27, 1732.[481] Mr. Akerman has also obligingly furnished me with this sketch, which is interesting as giving us the form of the stone. On the exposed sides of this sketch there is given retrograde, as on the original stone, one of the inscriptions. This inscription the engraver has entered in the plate, as corrected from the pertaining plaster-cast in the museum; and below it, in the plate, is a reversed impression of this inscription. [Illustration: Nº V Nº VI Nº VII ROMAN MEDICINE STAMPS.] In 1788 Mr. Gough published, in the _Archæologia_, “Observations on certain Stamps or Seals used anciently by the Oculists.”[482] In this communication he has given, amongst others, copies of the inscriptions on the medicine-stamp found at Bath; but without making any attempt whatever to read and decypher these inscriptions. He appears to have seen the stone itself, as he describes it as “square, of a greenish cast, and perforated.” He presents the following as the legends or inscriptions on the four sides of the stamp:[483]— 1. T. IVNIANI THALASER AD CLARITATEM 2. T. IVNIANI CRSOMAEL IN M AD CLARITATEM 3. T. IVNIANI D[symbols]VM AD VETERES CICATRICES 4. T. IVNIANI HOFSVMAρDV EC VMODELICTA AMEDICIS The two first of these inscriptions are given with sufficient distinctness and accuracy; and they do not offer any great difficulties in the way of explanation. But the two last have been copied so imperfectly,—and, perhaps, so inaccurately,—by Mr. Gough, as to surround their meaning with no small degree of uncertainty and doubt. In all of the four inscriptions, the name of the proprietor or oculist, T(_itus_?) JUNIANUS, is perfectly distinct. The first side reads as follows:— 1. T. JUNIANI THALASSER AD CLARITATEM. _T. Junianus’ Thalasser (or Marine Collyrium) for clearness of vision._ The collyrium _Thalasseros_ (θαλασσερος) is mentioned by several of the old Greek and Roman authors, who have discussed the subject of diseases of the eye and collyria, as by Galen,[484] Myrepsus,[485] Aetius,[486] Alexander Trallianus,[487] and Paulus Ægineta.[488]