Note 529 — ANCIENT ROMAN MEDICINE-STAMPS.
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“Mollissimum genus earum Penicilli, oculorum tumores levant ex mulso impositi: iidem abstergendæ lippitudini utilissimi: eosque tenuissimos et mollissimos esse oportet.”—Naturalis Historiæ, liber xxxii. cap. xi. p. 289. In regard to the locality from which these sponges were procured, Pliny afterwards adds,—“Trogus autor est, circa Lyciam Penicillos mollissimos nasci in alto, unde ablatæ sint spongiæ.”—Ibid. p. 290.