Note (89) — BOOK V. (continued 2)

89. Collyrium.) This name, at present, is appropriated to medicines designed for the eyes; in which sense the ancients also used it. But they gave it a greater latitude, to denote likewise a composition of powders brought to a consistence by some liquid, and formed into something like a tent, of various sizes, according to the cavities it was designed for. Thus Scribonius Largus orders a collyrium of the bigness of a pine kernel, to be introduced into the anus, Cap. xxxvii. comp. 142.