Part 104

For bloody nails, Nonnus recommends a mixture of verdigris and axunge.

Avicenna, among other applications resembling those of the Greeks, recommends a plaster of cypress-nuts and savin.

For pterygia, Celsus, among other applications, makes mention of a mixture of arsenic, quicklime, and chalcitis, in equal proportions. If this application fail, he directs us to use the actual cautery. Aëtius and Oribasius recommend the most powerful escharotics, such as verdigris, misy, sori, chalcitis, and arsenic. These applications are mentioned likewise by Rhases. (Contin. xxxvi.)

Pliny says of arsenic, “Tollit et pterygia digitorum,” &c. (H. N. xxxiv, 56.)

END OF VOL. I.

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