§1414.
14.
Ἕτερον ἔναιμον· σμύρνα, λιβανωτὸς, κηκὶς, ἰὸς, ἄνθος χαλκοῦ ὀπτὸν, στυπτηρίη αἰγυπτίη ὀπτὴ, οἰνάνθη, οἰσυπίδες, μολύβδαινα, τούτων ἴσον ἑκάστου, ἡ δίεσις οἴνῳ ὥσπερ τὸ πρότερον, καὶ ἄλλη ἐργασίη κατὰ τὰ αὐτά. —Ὄξος ὡς ὀξύτατον λευκὸν, μέλι, στυπτηρίην αἰγυπτίην, νίτρον ὡς ἄριστον ἡσύχως φρύξας, χολῆς ὀλίγον συνέψει· τοῦτο τὰ ὑπερσαρκέοντα καθαίρει καὶ κοιλαίνει, καὶ οὐ δάκνει. —Ἄλλο· ποίη ἡ μικρόφυλλος, ᾗ ὄνομα παρθένιον τὸ μικρόφυλλον, ἣ τὰ θύμια τὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ ποσθίου ἀφαιρεῖ, καὶ στυπτηρίη ἡ χαλκῖτις· καὶ μηλίαδος ὠμῆς· ἐλατήριον λεπτὸν ξηρὸν προστεῖλαι, καὶ τὸ σίδιον λεπτὸν ξηρὸν ὡσαύτως.
Another sarcotic medicine: myrrh, frankincense, gallnut, verdigris, roasted copper flower, roasted Egyptian alum, oenanthe, wool-grease, lead ore, an equal part of each of these; the dissolution is to be made with wine as before, and the other preparation in the same manner. —Boil together white vinegar as sharp as possible, honey, Egyptian alum, and the best soda having roasted it quietly, with a little gall; this cleanses away excessive flesh and hollows it out, and does not bite. —Another: the small-leaved herb called small-leaved parthenion, which removes the warts from the prepuce, and chalcitis alum; and raw Melian earth; apply fine dry elaterium, and likewise fine dry pomegranate rind.
§1515.
15.
Πληροῖ δὲ μάλιστα τὰ κοῖλα τὰ καθαρὰ, ποίη, ᾗ λαγώπυρος οὔνομα· ἐστὶ δὲ πιτύροισιν ὁμοίη ὅταν αὐαίνηται, μικρὸν τὸ φύλλον, ὥσπερ καὶ τὸ τῆς ἐλαίης, καὶ μακρότερον· καὶ πρασίου τὸ φύλλον, σὺν ἐλαίῳ. —Ἕτερον· ἰσχάδος τὸ εἴσω, τὸ πῖαρ, τὸ μελιτοειδὲς, ὡς ξηροτάτης, ὕδατος δύο μοίρας, καὶ λίνου καρποῦ φρύξας μὴ σφόδρα ὡς λεπτοτάτου μοίραν μίαν. —Ἄλλο· τῆς ἰσχάδος, καὶ ἄνθος χαλκοῦ ὀλίγον λεπτὸν, καὶ συκῆς ὀπόν. —Τὸ δ’ ἐκ τῆς ἰσχάδος, χαμαιλέων μέλας, χολὴ βοὸς ξηρή·
And that which most fills up clean cavities is the herb named lagopyrus; it is like bran when it is dried, the leaf is small, like that of the olive, but longer; and the leaf of horehound, with olive oil. —Another: the inner, fleshy, honey-like part of the driest possible dried fig, two parts of water, and having roasted not too much, one part of the finest possible linseed. —Another: of the dried fig, and a little fine copper flower, and the juice of the fig tree. —And the preparation from the dried fig: black chameleon, dry ox-gall; the other things the same.
τὰ μὲν ἄλλα τὰ αὐτά. Τὰ δὲ ξηρά. —Κάρδαμον λεπτὸν, ὠμὸν, ἐρύσιμον, ἑκατέρου ἴσον, τῆς δὲ ἰσχάδος δύο μέρη, λίνου καρποῦ δύο μοίρας, ὀπὸν συκῆς.
These are the dry ingredients. —Fine raw cress, erysimon, an equal part of each, two parts of the dried fig, two parts of linseed, and the juice of the fig tree.
Ὅταν τούτων τινὶ χρέῃ τῶν φαρμάκων, σπλῆνας ἄνωθεν ὀξηροὺς ἐπιθεὶς, σπόγγον ἄνωθεν τῶν σπληνῶν ἐπίθες, καὶ ἐπίδει, καὶ προσπίεσαι ὀλίγῳ μᾶλλον· τὰ δὲ περιέχοντα ἢν φλεγμαίνῃ, ὅ τι ἂν δοκέῃ ξυμφέρειν, περιπλάσσειν.
When you use any of these medicines, having applied vinegar-soaked compresses from above, apply a sponge on top of the compresses, and bind up, and press a little more tightly; and if the surrounding parts are inflamed, apply around them whatever seems to be beneficial.
§1616.
16.
Ἢν βούλῃ ὑγρῷ χρέεσθαι, καὶ τὸ καρικὸν φάρμακον ἐπαλείφειν, ἐπιδεῖν δὲ ὥσπερ τὰ πρότερα γέγραπται κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον.
If you wish to use a liquid application, apply also the Caric medicine, and bind up just as has been written before, in the same manner.
Ἐστὶ δὲ ἐκ τῶνδε τὸ φάρμακον ποιεύμενον· ἐλλεβόρου μέλανος, σανδαράχης, λεπίδος, μολίβδου κεκαυμένου σὺν πολλῷ θείῳ, ἀῤῥενικοῦ, κανθαρίδος· τούτῳ ὁποίῳ δοκέει συντεθέντι χρῆσθαι·
And the medicine is made from these: black hellebore, sandarach, copper scale, lead burnt with much sulfur, arsenicon, cantharis; use this composed in whatever way seems fit.
ἡ δὲ δίεσις, κεδρίνῳ ἐλαίῳ·
And the dissolution is with cedar oil.
ἐπειδὰν δὲ ἅλις ἔχῃ ἐπαλείφοντι, ἐκβάλλειν τὸ φάρμακον, ἐπιπάσσων ἄρον ἑφθὸν λεῖον, ἢ τρίβων ξηρὸν τῷ μέλιτι δεύων·
And when it has been sufficiently applied, remove the medicine, either by sprinkling boiled smooth arum, or grinding it dry and moistening it with honey.
καὶ ἢν ξηρῷ χρῇ τῷ καρικῷ τούτῳ, χρὴ ἀφιστάναι τὸ φάρμακον ἐπιπάσσων.
And if you use this Caric medicine dry, you must detach the medicine by sprinkling.
§1717.
17.
Ποέει δὲ τὸ ξηρὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐλλεβόρου μόνον καὶ τῆς σανδαράχης. —Ἕτερον ὑγρόν· ποίη, ἧς τὸ φύλλον ὅμοιον ἄρῳ τὴν φύσιν, λευκὸν δὲ; χνοῶδες, κατὰ κισσοῦ φύλλον τὸ μέγεθος· αὕτη ἡ ποίη ξὺν οἴνῳ ἐπιπλάσσεται. —Ἢ τοῦ πρίνου τὸ περὶ τὸ στέλεχος τρίψας ἐν οἴνῳ, ἐπίπλασσε. —Ἕτερον· ὄμφακος χυλὸς, ὄξος ὡς ὀξύτατον, ἄνθος χαλκοῦ, νίτρον, ὀπὸς ἐρινεοῦ. —Ἐς ὄμφακος χυλὸν στυπτηρίην ἐμβάλλειν ὡς λειοτάτην, καὶ θεῖναι ἐν χαλκῷ ἐρυθρῷ ἐς ἥλιον, καὶ ἀνακινέειν, καὶ ἀνελεῖν ὅταν δοκέῃ καλῶς ἔχειν τὸ πάχος. —Ἕτερον· ἑλλέβορος μέλας ὡς λειότατος ἐπιπάσσεται, ἕως ἄν τι τοῦ ὑγροῦ ἐνέῃ καὶ νεμομένου· ἐπίδεσις δὲ ἡ αὐτὴ, ἥπερ ἐπὶ τοῖσιν ἐμπλάστροισιν. —Ἕτερον· ἁλὸς χόνδρους ὡς ξηροτάτους ἐς χυτρίδιον χάλκεον ἢ κεραμεοῦν καινὸν ἐμβαλεῖν, ἴσους ὡς μάλιστα τὸ μέγεθος, μὴ ἁδρούς· καὶ μέλι ὡς κάλλιστον διπλάσιον τῶν ἁλῶν εἰκάσας ἐπιχέαι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἅλας· ἔπειτα ἐπιθεῖναι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἄνθρακας τὸ χυτρίδιον, καὶ ἐᾷν ἕως ἂν κατακαυθῇ πᾶν·
And the dry application is effective from hellebore alone and sandarach. —Another liquid one: the herb whose leaf is like arum in nature, but white and downy, in size like an ivy leaf; this herb is applied as a plaster with wine. —Or, having crushed the bark around the trunk of the holm-oak in wine, apply it as a plaster. —Another: juice of unripe grapes, vinegar as sharp as possible, copper flower, soda, juice of the wild fig tree. —Into the juice of unripe grapes, cast alum ground as smoothly as possible, and place it in a red copper vessel in the sun, and stir it, and take it away when the thickness seems to be proper. —Another: let black hellebore ground as smoothly as possible be sprinkled, as long as there is any moisture and spreading of the ulcer; and the binding up is the same as that for plasters. —Another: cast salt crystals as dry as possible into a small copper or new earthen pot, as equal in size as possible, not large; and having estimated the best honey to be double the amount of the salt, pour it over the salt; then place the pot upon the coals, and leave it until it is entirely burnt up.
ἔπειτα ἀνασπογγίσας τὸ ἕλκος καὶ ἐκκαθήρας, ἐπιδῆσαι ὥσπερ τὸ πρότερον, καὶ πιέσαι ὀλίγῳ μᾶλλον·
Then, having wiped the wound with a sponge and cleansed it, bind it up as before, and press a little more tightly.
τῇ δ’ ὕστεραίῃ, ὅπη ἂν μὴ λάβηται τὸ φάρμακον, ἐπιπάσας προσπιέζειν καὶ ἐπιδεῖν·
And on the next day, wherever the medicine has not adhered, sprinkle it, press it, and bind it up.
ὅταν δὲ βούλῃ ἀφιστάναι τὸ φάρμακον, ὄξος θερμὸν ἐπιχέειν, ἕως ἂν ἀποστῇ, καὶ αὖθις τὰ αὐτὰ ποιέειν, ἢν δέηται, ἀνασπογγίσας. —Ἄλλο ξηρὸν δάκνον ὡς. οἰσυπωδέστατα εἴρια ἐπ’ ὀστράκου κατακαῦσαι δαιδίῳ προσίσχων ἕως ἂν πάντα κατακαύσῃς· τοῦτο λεῖον τρίβων, ἐπιπάσας τὴν αὐτὴν ἐπιδεῖν ἐπίδεσιν. —Ἄλλο ξηρὸν ὁμοίως δάκνον· μίσυος ὡς λειοτάτου ἐπιπάσσειν ἐπὶ τὰ ὑγρὰ καὶ σαπρὰ, καὶ ἄνθος λεπτὸν μὴ παντελῶς λεῖον. —Ἐπὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἑλκέων· χαμαιλέων μέλας, στυπτηρίη ἡ τῷ ὀπῷ τῆς συκῆς δεδευμένη, δεύειν δὲ ὀπτὴν, καὶ ἄγχουσαν μίσγειν. —Ἀναγαλλὶς, καὶ στυπτηρίη αἰγυπτίη ὀπτὴ, ἐπίπαστον ὀρχομένιον ἐπιπάσσειν.
And when you wish to detach the medicine, pour on warm vinegar until it comes off, and do the same things again, if there is need, after wiping with a sponge. —Another dry application, a highly biting one: burn the greasiest possible wool on a potsherd, holding a torch to it until you have burnt it all; grinding this smooth, and having sprinkled it, bind it up with the same bandage. —Another dry application, likewise biting: sprinkle the smoothest possible misy upon the wet and decayed parts, and fine copper flower not completely ground. —For the same wounds: black chameleon, alum moistened with the juice of the fig tree—moisten it after it is roasted—and mix anchusa. —Anagallis, and roasted Egyptian alum; sprinkle it as an Orchomenian dusting powder.