Note 471 — ANCIENT ROMAN MEDICINE-STAMPS.
Reading edition
Historia Naturalis, vol. iii. lib. xxxv. p. 423. Scribonius Largus gives (cap. 90, p. 231) a formula, with the alumen melinum as one of its ingredients. See the same Oleum Melinum described by Dioscorides, lib. i. cap. 55, p. 31.