SECT. XXVI.—TO WARM THE HABIT.
Since even the habit must be warmed, it will be proper to use a preparation of a heating nature when in the bath. Let it contain calamint, marjoram (sampsuchum), hyssop, bay berries, rosemary, the stone pyrites, salts, the burnt lees of wine, nitre, pumice-stone, each in proper proportion; also a small quantity of mustard, stavesacre, and the seeds of the thymelæa (granum cnidium). After the bath, use a warm restorative (Acopum), and drink a yellow old wine, having taken a sweet drink (propoma) from wine and honey, pepper, rue, and the like.
Commentary. All this Section is taken from Oribasius, excepting the part relating to the draught or Propoma. The nature of the Propoma will be explained in the [Seventh Book]. We may just mention that it was a sort of liqueur.