Note 530 — ANCIENT ROMAN MEDICINE-STAMPS.
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“Penicillo fovere oculos oportet, ex aqua calida expresso, in qua ante vel myrti vel rosæ folia decocta sint.”—Milligan’s Celsus, liber vi. cap. vi. sec. 9, p. 288. When describing venesection at the bend of the arm, Celsus uses the word Penicillum to imply the pledget or compress applied after the operation with the view of arresting the bleeding—“Deligandum brachium super-imposito expresso ex aqua frigida Penicillo.”—Lib. vi. cap. xi. p. 65.