Part 12
Emollients (?):-These medicines are to be used in winter rather than
in summer. Emollient medicines which make the cicatrices fair:-Pound
the inner mucous part of the squill and pitch, with fresh swine's
seam, and a little oil, and a little resin, and ceruse. And the grease
of a goose, fresh swine's seam, and squill, and a little oil. The
whitest wax, fresh clean grease, or squill and white oil, and a little
resin. Wax, swine's seam (old and fresh), and oil, and verdigris,
and squill and resin. Let there be two parts of the old grease to
the fresh, and of the other things, q. s. Having melted the grease
that is fresh, pour it into another pot; having levigated plumbago
finely and sifted it, and mixed them together, boil and stir at first;
boil until when poured upon the ground it concretes; then taking it
off the fire, pour it all into another vessel, with the exception
of the stony sediment, and add resin and stir, and mix a little oil
of juniper, and what has been taken off. In all the emollient medicines
to which you add the resin, when you remove the medicine from the
fire, pour in and mix the resin while it is still warm. Another:-Old
swine's seam, wax, and oil, the dried shavings of the lotus, frankincense,
plumbago,-namely, of the frankincense one part, and of the other one
part, and of the shavings of the lotus one part; but let there be
two parts of the old grease, one of wax, and of fresh swine's seam
one part. Another:-Or old swine's seam along with the fresh grease
of a goat; when cleaned, let it retain as little as possible of its
membrane: having triturated or pounded it smooth, pour in oil, and
sprinkle the lead with the spodium and half the shavings of the lotus.
Another:-Swine's seam, spodium, blue chalcitis, oil.
