Note 426 — ANCIENT ROMAN MEDICINE-STAMPS.
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“Smetius vir eruditus nobis exhibet lapides duos virides quadratos, in margine scriptos, quarum usum se ignorare fatetur. Ego vero puto fuisse opercula pyxidum in quibus unguenta, olea, atque collyria reservabant Pharmacopolae.”—Spon, in his Miscellanea Eruditæ Antiquitatis, p. 236.