[449] P. Dioscoridis Opera quæ extant Omnia. (Edit. Saraceni, 1698) p. 21, lib. i. cap. xxv.
[450] Naturalis Historia. Leyden edit. of 1635, vol. ii. p. 474.
[451] Kühn’s Edit. of Galen, vol. xii. p. 770.
[452] Ibid. pp. 785 and 773.
[453] Kühn’s edit. of Galen, vol. xii. p. 715.
[454] See Milligan’s Celsus, p. 296.
[455] Medicæ Artis Principes, lib. ii. p. 170.
[456] Ibid. lib. iii. p. 432. Our own Pharmacopœias long retained similar terms. The London Pharmacopœia, for example, for 1662, contains an electuary termed Diacrocuma, an Emplastrum Oxycrocum, etc.
[457] Cornarius’ Latin edition of Aetius, 1549, p. 371; and Venice Greek edit. p. 126.
[458] Dr. Adams’ Sydenham Society edition, vol. i. p. 419; and the Basle Greek edition of 1538, p. 76.