[575] I shall quote Galen’s own graphic account of his personal visit and observations:—“At the mine in Cyprus, in the mountains of the Soli, there was a great cave dug in the mountain, at the right side of which, that is to say, on our left hand as we entered, there was a passage into the mine, in which I saw certain specimens of the three substances stretched upon one another like zones, the lowest being that of _sori_, upon it _chalcitis_, and then that of _misy_. In process of time the chalcitis changes into misy by degrees, and the sori can change into chalcitis, but requires a much longer space of time. So that it is no wonder that these three substances should be possessed of homogeneous (similar) powers, as differing from one another in tenuity and density of their parts—the grossest being the sori, and the finest the misy, whereas chalcitis possesses an intermediate power. When burnt, they become more attenuant, but less styptic.”—Adams’ _Paulus Ægineta_, vol. iii. note, p. 400. (Kühn’s _Galen_, vol. xii. p. 226.) [576] See his Edition of _Paulus Ægineta_, vol. iii. notes in pp. 253, 400, and 402. [577] _Opera_, lib. v. cap. 117, p. 370. [578] Kühn’s Edit. of _Galen_, vol. xii. p. 228. [579] _Opera_, lib. xv. p. 515, and lib. xiv. p. 483. [580] Dr. Adams’ Sydenham Society Edition, vol. iii. p. 253. [581] Kühn’s Edit. vol. xii. p. 701. [582] _Hist. Nat._ lib. xxxiv. c. xii. v. iii. p. 399. [583] See Milligan’s Edit. p. 194, Misy _sanguinem suppremit_; p. 197, _rodit_; p. 199, _crustas inducit_, etc. [584] See _De Methodo Medendi_, lib. vi. pp. 305-308. [585] Viper wine (_Vinum Viperinum_) and viper broth (_Jus Viperinum_) had long a place in the London Pharmacopœia; and still longer the vipers were retained in it as an ingredient in the celebrated but multifarious Theriaca Andromache, which, with its discordant farrago of seventy and odd ingredients, was only expelled about a hundred years ago from the British Pharmacopœias. (See Alston’s _Materia Medica_, vol. ii. p. 517; Hill’s _Materia Medica_, p. 829; Quincy’s _Dispensatory_, p. 400; Mead’s _Essay on the Viper_, 1745, etc.)