Oak leaves applied, and those of the willow and cabbage; the fruit, leaves, and bark of the mezereon, and the juice of the more austere plantain, papyrus soaked in oxycrate or wine, and wrapped round in a circular manner. The following are agglutinants of fresh wounds: the leaves of the pine and spruce fir, and their fresh bark wrapped round like a bandage, with water, oxycrate, or wine; and new cheese pounded. But we must apply externally the leaves of dock, or of vine, or of beet, or of lettuce. But cheese made of acid milk cures even the larger sores; and the wild pears repress the discharge. The horse-tail (Hippuris) may be applied with advantage, even if the tendons are divided asunder; and the matured woad may be used to indurated bodies even when they occur in the heads of muscles. The leaves and shoots of cypress, and its recent and soft balls (pilulæ) may be applied to indurated parts, but we must mix with it some of the fine dust taken from a wall near a mill. Myrrh rubbed with water, or frankincense and earth worms, agglutinate even the divisions of tendons; also, cinquefoil leaves with honey, and garlic burnt and applied. Old ulcers again are remedied by barley burnt with cerate, and by ceruse with a quadruple quantity of myrtle cerate. For ulcers on the head sprinkle dried myrrh, and do not moisten it, for it will speedily produce adhesion. Or, having triturated dried aloes or birthwort, and having boiled it with honey in wine until it is of a proper consistence, spread upon a pledget and apply it. Of the compound agglutinants are those called the Barbarous, the Golden, that ascribed to Nicolaus, that from willows and dittany, and others of a similar nature, which can produce the adhesion even of very large sores. * * * * * COMMENTARY. Celsus gives the following list: glutinant vulnus, myrrha, thus, gummi, præcipueque acanthinum, psyllium, tragacantha, cardamomum, bulbi, lini semen, nasturtium, ovi album, gluten, ichthyocolla, vitis alba, contusæ cum testis suis cochleæ, mel coctum, spongia, vel ex aquâ frigidâ, vel ex vino, vel ex aceto expressa, ex iisdem lana succida: si levis plaga est etiam aranea. Our author’s list is copied from Oribasius. Aëtius has a long chapter on the composition of applications for agglutinating fresh wounds. The ingredients of them are most various: sumach, litharge, wax, galbanum, bee-glue, turpentine, alum, chalcitis, &c. Actuarius merely extracts a few articles from our author’s list. Avicenna’s list scarcely differs in any one particular from our author’s, and nearly the same may be said of Haly’s. Isaac (ap. Rhasis Contin. xxviii) particularly commends bdellium and myrrh, with honey and wine.