[429] Antiquitatis Medicæ Selectæ. Jena, 1772.
[430] Christophori Saxii Epistola de Veteris Medici Ocularii Gemma Sphragide, prope Trajectum ad Mosam eruta. 1774.
[431] Archæologia; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity, vol. ix. (1789), p. 227.
[432] Dissertation sur l’Inscription Grecque ΙΑϹΟΝΟϹ ΛΥΚΙΟΝ. Paris, 1826.
[433] Cinq Cachets Inedits de Médecins-Oculistes Romains. Paris, 1845. To M. Sichel, one of the most learned of living physicians, I am indebted for various valuable suggestions in collecting the materials for the present essay.
[434] Observations sur les Cachets des Médecins-Oculistes Anciens, à-propos de Cinq Pierres Sigillaires inedites. Paris, 1846.
[435] Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, tom. viii. p. 575. (1846). Notice sur un Cachet d’Oculiste Romain trouvé à Amiens.
[436] The three found in Italy have all been discovered in the more northern parts of that kingdom,—viz. the first at Genoa, the second at Sienna, and the third at Verona. See notices of them in Spon’s Miscellanea Eruditæ Antiquitatis, p. 237; Muratori’s Thesaurus Inscriptionum, D. viii. 4; and Maffei’s Museum Veronense, p. 135.
[437] Kühn’s Edit. of Galen, vol. xiv. pp. 766-777.
[438] Some of the ancient collyria were gravely averred to possess properties that were optical, rather than medical. Thus Alexander Trallianus gives a receipt for a very complex collyrium, which, when anointed upon the eyes, enabled those who used it to gaze upon the sun even without harm (Possis etiam solem citra noxam intueri).—De Arte Medica, lib. ii. p. 174.