The Medicine of Pliny and Gargilius Martialis

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itching and mange are removed by wine, cyprus oil original: "oleo cyprino", and cedar resin cedria resinous oil extracted from cedar. Scalp eruptions porrigines dandruff/scalp eruptions are dispersed by applying sheep's gall mixed with Cimolian chalk a type of cleansing clay from the island of Kimolos until it dries. Nits and other harmful vermin of the head are killed by washing with seawater. Likewise, if Samian earth a medicinal clay from the island of Samos is applied with soda and oil. Soda mixed with alum and rubbed into the head removes scalp eruptions.

III. For weeping ulcers on the head.

Weeping ulcers on the head 10 arise particularly in infants as a specific ailment, but they also severely infest men and women once they take hold. These are most effectively healed by fomentations of bull's urine. They are smeared with calf's gall warmed with vinegar. Calf suet 15 with salt is most useful. They are smeared with the ash of murex shells or purple-dye shells mixed with honey. Garlic is burned with its own stalk, and its ash is applied with oil. Crushed mint applied 20 dries them out. Almond oil with wine cleanses them. They are smeared with galbanum a medicinal gum resin in honey. Crushed leaves of the bramble on which blackberries grow are applied.