[514] Mackenzie. Treatise on Diseases of the Eye (1830), pp. 140 and 141.
[515] Frankincense, saffron, and myrrh, form, as we have seen, prominent ingredients in the ancient collyria. Actuarius lays down the differences among the therapeutical effects of these three eye-medicines, with the following rare subtlety:—“Crocus et Myrrha hoc inter se dissident, quod ille moderate adstringat, hæc vero citra adstrictionem non instrenue discutiat, humiditatesque exsiccet: suntque generosiora facultatibus quam Thus, quapropter etiam discutiunt magis, verum quod detergendi vi careant: in ulcerum curatione thuri ceu inferiora cedunt.”—De Methodo Medendi, lib. vi. cap. v. p. 305.
[516] Kühn’s Edit. vol. xii. p. 60.
[517] Dr. Adams’ Edit. vol. iii. p. 217.
[518] Medicinalium Collect. lib. xi. p. 425.
[519] De Arte Medica, lib. ii. p. 173.
[520] Milligan’s Edit. of Celsus, p. 290, lib. vi. 13.
[521] See the Aldine Greek edition of his works, p. 118.
[522] De Medicamentis Liber, cap. viii. p. 280.
[523] De Methodo Medendi, lib. vi. p. 93. Tochon, p. 32.