Note 805 — ON INJURIES OF THE HEAD.
Francis Adams translation
Our author in this place would appear to treat of incipient hernia cerebri, as immediately before he treats of fungous ulcers on the pericranium. Galen in like manner, praises powerfully dessicant medicines upon the authority of Meges the Sidonian, who, he says, had great experience in these cases. He speaks of the plaster called Isis as being a most efficacious application to the dura mater, when laid bare. Its principal ingredients are of an escharotic and detergent nature, such as squama æris, burnt copper, ammoniac salts, myrrh, aloes, and the like. See Paulus Ægineta, Vol. III., p. 564. Galen concludes his remarks on this subject with stating that, before getting into an inflamed state, the dura mater, as being of a dry nature, endures the most powerful medicines. (Meth. Med., vi., at the end.)