[p. 99] be finely levigated, anoint the eyes
with it, and dust it upon the angles of the eyes.
PART 33
For watery eyes. Take one drachm of ebeny and nine oboli of burnt
copper, rub them upon a whetstone, add three oboli of saffron; triturate
all these things reduced to a fine powder, pour in an Attic hemina
of sweet wine, and then place in the sun and cover up; when sufficiently
digested, use it.
PART 34
For violent pains of the eyes. Take of chalcitis, and of raisin, of
each 1 dr., when digested for two days, strain; and pounding myrrh
and saffron, and having mixed must, with these things, digest in the
sun; and with this anoint the eyes when in a state of severe pain.
Let it be kept in a copper vessel.
PART 35
Mode of distinguishing persons in an hysterical fit. Pinch them with
your fingers, and if they feel, it is hysterical; but if not, it is
a convulsion.
PART 36
To persons in coma, (dropsy?) give to drink meconium (euphorbia peplus?)
to the amount of a round Attic leciskion (small acetabulum).
PART 37
Of squama aeris, as much as three specilla can contain, with the gluten
of summer wheat: levigate, pound, form into pills, and give; it purges
water downwards.
PART 38
A medicine for opening the bowels. Pour upon figs the juice of spurge,
in the proportion of seven to one: then put into a new vessel and
lay past when properly mixed. Give before food.
PART 39
Pounding meconium, pouring on it water, and straining, and mixing
flour, and baking into a cake, with the addition of boiled honey,
give in affections of the anus and in dropsy; and after eating of
it, let the patient drink of a sweet watery wine, and diluted hydromel
prepared from wax: or collecting meconium, lay it up for medicinal
purposes.
