The seven books of Paulus Ægineta, volume 3 (of 3)

Book I, 68.) Of course it would consist of nothing but animal sweat,

mixed up perhaps with either natron or the flower of beans, which was generally used during the process. The _Sordes gymnasiorum_ is also in like manner treated of by Dioscorides, and it must have been the sweat collected from the statues and walls of the gymnasia. Dioscorides recommends it for crude boils (phymata...