Of Medicine, in Eight BooksCelsus, Aulus Cornelius
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Of Medicine, in Eight Books
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Whether it has yielded to the latter method, or has never resisted,
ulcers will be found, either in the inner part(15) of the prepuce, or
in the glans, or in the penis beyond that; which must, of necessity,
be either clean and dry, or humid and purulent. If they be dry, they
must be first fomented with hot water; then lycium, with wine applied,
or oil lees boiled with the same, or rose oil with butter. If there is
a thin humour in them, they must be washed with wine; then a little
honey and oil of roses with butter, and a fourth part of turpentine
resin must be used. But if pus is discharged from them, first of all
they ought to be washed with warm mulse; after which is applied of
pepper p. i. *. myrrh p. ii. *. saffron, calcined milsy, each p. ii.
*. which are boiled with a rough wine, to the consistence of honey.
The same composition is also proper for the tonsils, a moist uvula,
and ulcers of the nostrils and mouth. Another for the same purpose: of
pepper p. i. *. myrrh p. i. *. saffron p. ii *. milsy p. i. *. calcined
copper p. ii. *. which are first rubbed down with a rough wine, then
when they have grown dry, they are again rubbed with three cyathi of
passum, and boiled to the consistence of viscum. Verdigrease too, with
boiled honey, and those compositions, which were mentioned before, for
ulcers of the mouth, cure these. But the composition of Erasistratus,
or Crato, is a proper application for purulent ulcers of the parts of
generation. Olive leaves also are boiled in nine cyathi of wine(16),
and to these are added of scissile allum p. iv. *. lycium p. viii. *.
honey a cyathus and half; and if the quantity of pus be pretty great,
this medicine is diluted with honey; if small, with wine. This is a
constant rule; after dressing, while the inflammation continues, to
apply over it such a cataplasm, as before directed, and to dress the
ulcers every day in the same manner. But if pus begins to be discharged
in a great quantity, and is fetid, the _ulcer_ ought to be washed with
cream of lentils, with the addition of a little honey, or a decoction
of olive, or mastich leaves; or a decoction of horehound used in the
like manner with honey. And the same dressings must be applied; or else
omphacium with honey; or that composition for the ears, which is made
of verdigrease and honey; or the composition of Andron; or an anthera,
with the addition of a little honey. Some dress all the ulcers, which
we have yet mentioned, with lycium and wine.
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