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§. 9.

Truly, there are still many items occurring in section 8 which suit domestic and mechanical uses more than they do medicinal formulas. Spanish wax original: "Cera Hispanica"; likely sealing wax, both red and green, is fit for sealing; grafting wax is more useful to gardeners. Naval pitch is for coopers and shipbuilders; Colophony a type of resin for lute-players; Isinglass original: "Ichthyocolla"; a collagen from fish bladders is convenient for wine-merchants for clarifying wine, and for joiners for gluing. Tripoli powder, Emery, Pumice, and Schist Alum are best for polishing metals, glass, and gems, and are extremely necessary for craftsmen; just as Gypsum and Quicklime are for cement-makers and stonemasons. But to what end should I mention yellow and native sulfur, or the ores of antimony and mercury? For as long as flowers of sulfur are available and not too costly, we can do without yellow and native sulfur. Nor do we use the ores of antimony or mercury in medicines, but rather preparations made from antimony and native cinnabar.

§. 10.

So that we may contract what has been reviewed so far into a summary, we conclude thus: Whatever things are not employed for the care of sick humans ought to be cast out from the Catalog of Official Medicines as foreign. But remedies intended for beasts, Poisons, Pigments, Cosmetics, Perfumes, Sugared items, and those preserved in salt and vinegar—which are kept for other domestic or mechanical uses—are not employed for the care of sick humans. Therefore, they ought to be cast out from the Catalog of Official Medicines as foreign.

CHAPTER II.

Filthy and nauseating substances, which do not deserve the name of Medicines.

§. I.

If affliction is not to be added to the afflicted, then those who would bring aid to the sick act most poorly indeed when they indiscriminately administer whatever comes to hand, especially filthy and nauseating things. And just as—