[921] Similar to the notion still prevalent, that the application of pure gold will remove styes on the eyelids.
[922] It has been supposed by some, that the “Chrysocolla” of the ancients, as well as the “Cæruleum,” mentioned in c. [57] of this Book, were the produce of cobalt; but the more generally received opinion is that “chrysocolla” (gold-solder) was green verditer, or mountain-green, carbonate and hydrocarbonate of copper, green and blue, substances which are sometimes found in gold mines, but in copper mines more particularly. It must not be confounded with the modern chrysocolla or Borax.
[923] In Chapter [21] of this Book.
[924] The “Reseda luteola,” Dyer’s weed, or Wild woad. See Beckmann’s Hist. Inv. Vol. I. p. 478-481, where the identity of the Chrysocolla of the ancients is discussed at considerable length.
[925] As to the identity of this substance, see B. xxxv. c. [52].
[926] These drugs have not been identified.
[927] “Elutam.” Though this is the reading given by the Bamberg MS., “luteam” seems preferable; a name owing, probably, to its being coloured with the plant “lutum,” as mentioned at the end of this Chapter.
[928] So called, probably, from being made up into little balls resembling the “orobus” or vetch.
[929] A powder, probably, prepared from “cæruleum.” See the end of the present [Chapter], and Chapter [57] of this Book. Littré renders the words “in lomentum,” kept “in the form of powder,” without reference to the peculiar pigment known as “lomentum.”
[930] “Sudore resolutis.”