[116] [Minium is an ancient name for red oxide of lead; it was also applied to mercuric sulphide or vermilion, and the term vermilion was also used as a designation for granum tinctorum or kermes, the coccus ilicis, a variety of cochineal extolled by Galen for its medicinal properties. The exact nature of the meaning of minium in this connection is not altogether clear.—E. C. K.]
[117] A species of herb (all-heal).
[118] Peucedanum officinale, hog’s fennel.
[119] A species of wild grape thus called because it is red like minium (vermilion).
[120] Species of mineral. [An impure copper sulphide.—E. C. K.]
[121] Condensed juice of the seeds of the momordica elaterium, a bitter, irritating, and drastic substance.
[122] According to De Giorgi (Sinonimia chimico-farmacotecnica, Milan, 1889), scissile alum is one of the many names for blue vitriol or sulphate of copper.
[123] [The cyperus rotundus, recommended by Dioscorides in the treatment of ulcers in the mouth. Esteemed also by the Arab medical writers Serapion, Avicenna, and Rhazes. Not the cypress, cupressus sempervirens.—E. C. K.]
[124] Here is meant the paper made of papyrus and called in Latin charta.
[125] Trisulphide of arsenic.