[453] Kühn’s edit. of _Galen_, vol. xii. p. 715. [454] See Milligan’s _Celsus_, p. 296. [455] _Medicæ Artis Principes_, lib. ii. p. 170. [456] _Ibid._ lib. iii. p. 432. Our own Pharmacopœias long retained similar terms. The London Pharmacopœia, for example, for 1662, contains an electuary termed _Diacrocuma_, an _Emplastrum Oxycrocum_, etc. [457] Cornarius’ Latin edition of _Aetius_, 1549, p. 371; and Venice Greek edit. p. 126. [458] Dr. Adams’ Sydenham Society edition, vol. i. p. 419; and the Basle Greek edition of 1538, p. 76. [459] See Dr. Adams’ edition, vol. iii. p. 551, as compared with the Basle edition, p. 78. [460] The central figure shows the size of the stone, and the intagliate inscription on one side. The other figures show its three inscriptions as they read from left to right when stamped on wax. [461] See Scribonius Largus in _Medicæ Artis Principes_, p. 209; Marcellus Empiricus, in _ibid._ p. 326. [462] Kühn’s edit. of _Galen_, vol. xii. p. 751. [463] _Ibid._ p. 772. [464] _Ibid._ p. 760. [465] _Ibid._ vol. xi. p. 715. [466] _Medicæ Artis Principes: De Medicamentis Lib._, p. 280. [467] Spon also (see his _Miscellanea Eruditæ Antiquitatis_, p. 236) supposed the Nymegen and Genoa medicine-stamps (the only specimens known to exist at the time at which he wrote) to have belonged to some of those practitioners (_Myropolæ_ or _Unguentarii_) who professed to cure diseases principally by the external application of oils, ointment, and friction,—a form of charlatanry not altogether unknown in this, the nineteenth century. According to Pliny, Prodicus, a disciple of Hippocrates, founded the mode of cure termed “Iatraleptice.” By this means (adds Pliny) he opened a road to riches to the slaves and rubbers themselves employed by the physicians (reunctoribus quoque medicorum ac mediastinis vectigal invenit). See his _Historia Naturalis_, lib. xxiv. cap. i. in Leyden edition of 1695, vol. iii. p. 187. [468] Kühn’s _Galen_, vol. xii. p. 787, 786, and 769. Actuarius gives a formula for a collyrium _melinum_, but it is a copy of the last of Galen. See _Medicæ Artis Principes_, p. 309. [469] _Antiquitates Medicæ Selectæ_, p. 55. [470] _Historia Naturalis_, lib. xiii. tom. ii. p. 37. Dr. Adams’ edition of _Paulus Ægineta_, vol. iii. p. 592. [471] _Historia Naturalis_, vol. iii. lib. xxxv. p. 423. Scribonius Largus gives (cap. 90, p. 231) a formula, with the _alumen melinum_ as one of its ingredients. See the same _Oleum Melinum_ described by Dioscorides, lib. i. cap. 55, p. 31.