On Regimen In Acute Diseases   

finely levigated, anoint the eyes with it, and dust it upon the angles
of the eyes.
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.
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.
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.
36. To persons in coma, (dropsy?) give to drink meconium
(euphorbia peplus?) to the amount of a round Attic leciskion (small
acetabulum).
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.
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.
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.


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