253. Sandaili: cold in the third degree and dry in the second degree; they are a sort of little sticks, and there are three sorts of them, i.e. sandalum album, which is white in colour, sandalum rubrum, which is foxy red in colour, and sandalum citrinum, which is yellow in colour, the last being the best colour for it to have; each of these sorts retains its efficacy for forty years. They have the comforting virtue on account of their own aromatic smell, and the altering virtue on account of their coldness, for which reason they serve well against the bad hot complexes of fever, and to stop thirst and excessive heat of the liver. If the powder of sandalwood be boiled in water and sugar be put in it so it be, as it were, a syrup, this syrup will give relief in the illnesses we have mentioned. If the powder of sandalwood be put in oleum mandragoratum and rubbed on the forehead, it will induce sleep in the acute fevers, and it will relieve