[469] Antiquitates Medicæ Selectæ, p. 55.
[470] Historia Naturalis, lib. xiii. tom. ii. p. 37. Dr. Adams’ edition of Paulus Ægineta, vol. iii. p. 592.
[471] Historia Naturalis, vol. iii. lib. xxxv. p. 423. Scribonius Largus gives (cap. 90, p. 231) a formula, with the alumen melinum as one of its ingredients. See the same Oleum Melinum described by Dioscorides, lib. i. cap. 55, p. 31.
[472] Quemadmodum viridium emplastrorum plurima propter æruginem præpollentem talia fiunt, præsertim quæ sunt ex ipsis coloratiora; ita quoque Melina. Sed viridia æruginem incoctam habent, Melina vero coctam quidem sed mediocriter; nam si amplius coquas, bicolora emplastra quibusdam appellata, quibusdam gilva, efficies. Solent Medici viridia, simpliciter, Melina, et rufa, nominare, etc.—Galen de Compositione Medicamentorum per Genera, cap. vi.—Kühn’s edit. vol. xiii. p. 503.
[473] See Archæologia, vol. ix. p. 228.
[474] Aetius’ Tetrabiblos, Cornarius’ edit. p. 359.
[475] De Medicam. Liber.: Med. Artis Principes, p. 281.
[476] De Compos. Med.: Ibid. p. 660.
[477] Paulus Ægineta’s Works. Dr. Adams’ Translation, vol. iii. p. 551.
[478] Cornarius’ Translation, p. 435.