[537] “Psoricum is formed by mixing two parts of chalcitis with
one of litharge, triturating them in vinegar, and, having put
them into a new pot, by burying them in dung for forty
days.”—See Adams’ _Paulus Ægineta_, vol. iii. p. 421.
[538] Kühn’s Edit. vol. xiv. p. 767.
[539] Galen in Kühn’s Edit. vol. xii. p. 717.
[540] _Princ. Art. Medicæ, De Methodo Medendi_, lib. vi. p.
305.
[541] _Tetrabiblos_, pp. 434, 435.
[542] _De Compositione Medicamentorum_, p. 199.
[543] _De Medicamentis Liber_, pp. 274 and 275.
[544] The inscription on the Jena stamp is as follows (see
Tochon’s _Dissertation_, p. 66): PHRONIMI DIAPSORICUM OPOBAL.
AD CLAR.
[545] The inscription alluded to runs thus:—PHRONIMI DIASMYRN.
POST IMPE. LIP. EX OV. Or, when extended,—“_Phronimi
Diasmyrnes post impetum lippitudinis ex ovo._”—_Tochon_, p.
66. _Phronimus_ is the name, of course, of the occulist or
proprietor.
[546] Cornarius’ Edit.; or Dr. Adams’ Edit. vol. iii. p. 550.
[547] _Med. Art. Princ. De Methodo Mendendi_, lib. vi. p. 310.
[548] For example, in the stamp found at Maestricht, and
described by Saxe, there occurs the inscription _C. Lucci
Alexandri Crocodes_ AT _aspritudines_, instead of AD
_aspritudines_. See Tochon’s _Dissertation_, p. 68.
[549] These figures of the Wroxeter stamp are copies of those
originally published of it by Mr. Parkes in the _Gentleman’s
Magazine_ for 1810, vol. lxxx. p. 617.
[550] _Beauties of England and Wales_ (1813), vol. xiii. p.
191.
[551] _Salopia Antiqua_, p. 126.
[552] See a copy of it in Gruter’s _Inscriptiones Antiquæ Orbis
Romanæ_, tom. ii. p. 896, No. iii.
[553] See Le Clerc’s _Histoire de la Médecine_, pp. 421 and
568.
[554] See, for example, Adams’ _Paulus Ægineta_, vol. iii. pp.
551 and 555, where the collyria _Diasmyrnum_ and _Isotheon_ are
directed “to be used with an egg”—(“Usus cum _ovo_ est,”
according to the Latin translation of Cornarius, p. 671, etc.)
Celsus directs the _Collyrium Philetis_ to be used “vel _ex
ovo_, vel ex lacte.” Galen repeatedly employs the same
expression in giving his directions about collyria, as in vol.
xii. pp. 746, 747, 749, 754, etc.
[555] _Med. Art. Princ. Synopsis_, liber iii. p. 51.
[556] Kühn’s Edit. of _Galen_, vol. xiii. pp. 877 and 879.
[557] _Ibid._ vol. xii. p. 761.
[558] The same title or designation of ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΣ (the
unconquered) was assumed by some of the Indo-Greek kings of
Bactria. Philosenus (who reigned in the east of Bactria), and
Antialcides, Lysias, and Archebias (who reigned in the west),
according to Grotefend’s classification, all appropriated this
title to themselves. See Werlhof’s _Handbuch der Griechischen
Numismatik_, pp. 72 and 73.
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