124. Ferrum, ferrugo & sgama ferri: i.e. iron, iron dross, and iron flake; hot and dry in the third degree; there are differences between these sorts i.e. ferrum is the iron, ferrugo is the iron dross, and squama ferri is the iron flake. The iron has the comforting, attractive and constraining virtues. Milk boiled with iron will stop the flux of the abdomen. If a wound be cauterized with it, it will stop the flow of blood. The iron dross has the attenuating and drying virtues. Wine in which the dross has been immersed will correct grossness in the spleen, and its oppilation. Item, if fine powder be made of the iron dross, and it be mixed with the juice of mullein, and cotton be dipped in it and put on the anus, this will stop the tlux of the haemorrhoids. Item, take red-hot dross, pour vinegar on it, and allow the fumes to the anus, and this will help with tenesmus; the iron flake should not be given on its own, without styptic substances with it, such as the foliage of roses, because it would create sores in the intestines; it purges by reason of its weight the corrupt