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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 37

37. Auripimentum, arsenicum: i.e. the names of orpiment; it is hot and dry in the fourth degree; it has the dissolving, attractive and cleaning virtues; it is appropriate against children' s coughing, if a scruple of powder of orpiment be put through milk or a raw egg, it will help with it; against asthma and a hard cough, it is good to put powder of orpiment on red coals and to allow the smoke of it into their mouths, and it will comfort it. Item, take a drachma of orpiment and twice as much soap, mix them together, and rub them to


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the place where there is morphew and rash, and it will cure it. Item, take powder of orpiment and olive oil and mix them together and put them on flaking fingernails and it will cure it.