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[p. 52] Est etiam Herae compositio, quae habet murrae, chalcitidis, singulorum P. II; aloes, turis, aluminis scissilis, singulorum P. IIII; aristolochiae, gallae inmaturae, singulorum P. VIII; malicori contriti P. X. Est Iudaei, in qua sunt calcis partes duae; nitri quam ruberrumi pars tertia, quae urina inpuberis pueri coguntur, donec strigmenti crassitudo sit. Sed subinde is locus, cui id inlinitur, madefaciendus est. At Iollas chartae combustae, sandaracae, singulorum P. I; calcis P. II; auripigmenti tantundem miscebat. Si vero ex membrana, quae super cerebrum est, profluit sanguis, vitellus combustus et contritus inspergi debet: si alio loco sanguinis profluvium est, auripigmenti, squamae aeris, singulorum P. I; sandaracae P. II; marmoris cocti P. IIII inspergi debet. Eadem cancro quoque obsistunt. Ad inducendam cicatricem: squamae aeris, turis fuliginis, singulorum P. II; calcis P. IIII. Eadem increscentem quoque carnem coercent. Timaeus autem ad ignem sacrum, ad cancrum his utebatur: murrae P. II: turis, atramenti sutori, singulorum P. III; sandaracae, auripigmenti, squamae aeris, singulorum P. IIII; gallae P. VI; cerussae combustae P. VIII. Ea vel arida inspersa vel melle excepta idem praestant. Sternumenta vero vel albo veratro vel struthio coiecto in nares excitantur, vel his mixtis: piperis, veratri albi, singulorum P. =; castorei P. yyy; spumae nitri P. I; struthi P. IIII. Gargarizationes autem aut levandi causa fiunt aut
De Medicina. Celsus. W. G. Spencer. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition).
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