[46] Hippocratis opera, Genevæ, 1657 to 1662, De natura hominis, p. 225.
[47] Page 251.
[48] Page 252.
[49] Page 253.
[50] De morbis mulierum, lib. ii, p. 666.
[51] The use of carbonate of lime or chalk as a dentifrice evidently goes back to antiquity.
[52] Unwashed wool—that is, wool not cleansed of the fat secreted by the skins of the animals from whom it is taken—was much in use by the doctors of antiquity. One now obtains lanolin from it.
[53] The obole was about three-quarters of a gram.
[54] The cotyle was a little more than a quarter of a liter.
[55] Page 507.