inflamed apply henbane with polenta, or cabbage with honey. _For putrid and spreading ulcers on all parts of the body._—Of quicklime, of chalcitis, of each dr. ij; of arsenic, dr. j. This may be used for pterygia of the fingers, for phagedæna and carbuncle, with honey if on the genital organs, but dry if on any other part of the body. Above apply an oblong pledget with rosin. _An universally applicable powder for all spreading sores, and those of the mouth, for hemorrhages, and for repressing fungous flesh._ Of chalcitis, of misy, of both in a crude state, dr. xx; of squama ferri, dr. vj; of immature galls, dr. viij. _For spreading and putrid sores._ Of salts, dr. ij; of any species of alum which has been burnt, dr. j; of squama æris, of burnt pumice stone, equal quantities. Scraped verdigris, with burnt misy mixed with liquid pitch; and the flakes of iron with oil also answer well. _For spreading ulcers of the pudendum._ These things will apply to them, and also the composition called meliterium, the powder of the wild myrtle, and that from paper; also the composition from oxymel called coracion, the trochisk of Andron and the like, will answer with all spreading ulcers. The same things also apply with phagedæna; for phagedæna is an ulcer that spreads by eating. _For foul and fetid ulcers._ The Lemnium sigillum (Lemnian earth) mixed with vinegar, oxymel, oxycrate, or wine, until it is of the consistence of clay, may be rubbed on them with advantage; or the leaves of cypress, its shoots, and tender balls (pilulæ), or the ashes of dried gourd burnt, or of the burnt bark of the plane tree, or of burnt dill in like manner, or of foul wool burnt, or of plaintain; also woad by itself or with polenta, or the dried root of hog’s fennel. * * * * * COMMENTARY. It will be remarked that the milder applications mentioned in this section are all powerful desiccants and astringents. Most of them are mentioned by Dioscorides as possessing these properties. Galen recommends the compound applications mentioned by our author, containing verdigris, squama æris, &c.