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Of Medicine

by Celsus

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Chap. V Cleansers

Cleansers are verdigrease, orpiment, which by the Greeks is called arseniconDJ (this in all respects has the same properties with sandarach11, but is stronger) copper scales, pumice, iris, balsam, storax, frankincense, incense bark, both pine and turpentine resin liquid, flower of the wild vine, lizard’s dung, blood of a pigeon, and ring-dove, and swallow, ammoniacum, bdellium (which has the same virtues with the ammoniacum, but is not so strong) southern-wood, dry figs, gnidian berry12, shavings of ivory, omphacium13, radish, the coagulum of blood, but especially that of a hare (which has the same properties of others, but in this case is more efficacious) ox gall, raw yolk of an egg, hartshorn, glue, crude honey, misy, chalcitis, saffron, stavesacre, litharge, galls, copper scales14, blood-stone, minium, costus, sulphur, crude pitch, suet, fat, oil, rue, leeks, lentils, vetches.

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