Chap. VII Eating Medicines
The medicines, which eat flesh, are the juice of acacia, ebony, verdigrease, copper scales, chrysocolla, Cyprus ashes18, nitre, cadmia19, litharge, hypocistis20, diphryges21, salt, orpiment, sulphur, rocket, sandarach, salamander22, bastard sponge, flour of copper23, chalcitis, copperas, ochre, lime, vinegar, galls, alum, milk of the wild fig-tree, or of sea spurge, which by the Greeks is called tithymallusDK, animal gall, soot of frankincense, spodium24, lentil, honey, olive-leaves, horehound, blood-stone, and the Phrygian25, and Asian, and Scissile26 stones, misy, wine, and vinegar27.