[92.] Cimolian chalk.) I have here kept close to the author’s term subcærulea. Pliny and Dioscorides describe this kind as inclining to purple. See note book ii. chap. 33.
NOTES TO BOOK VI.
[2.] Gum.) Our author here manifestly distinguishes between lachryma and pituita. The ancients imagined the pituita to be concreted tears, whereas it is the sebaceous matter secreted from the glands of Meibomius. To translate it in one word I have therefore given it the vulgar English name.
[3.] Phlegm.) Vid. lib. ii. cap. 23.
[4.] Diet ought to be somewhat fuller than formerly.) In Almeloveen and Linden, Post hæc cibo pleniore, quam ex operum consuetudine. The reading in the older editions was ex eorum dierum consuetudine, which Morgagni prefers, Ep. vi. p. 153. and is the reading I have followed.
[5.] Burnt antimony.) The antimony is rubbed over with suet, and hid in the fire till the suet is burnt, and then being taken out, it is extinguished in the milk of a woman, that has had a male child, or in old wine. Dioscorid. lib. v. c. 873.
[6.] Specillum asperatum.) Paulus Ægineta, treating of the same disorder, mentions this instrument by the name of blepharoxyston, that is, an instrument for scraping the eye-lids. It is delineated by Heister, p. 2. tab. 16. fig. 5.
[7.] Psoricum.) Dioscorides gives the same process for making of psoricum: only he orders the vessel to be buried in dung for forty days, about the heats of the dog star. Lib. v. cap. 890.