collyrium
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of collyrium
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek kollȳ́rion eye salve
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For it St. Francis' physicians applied eye bindings, salves, plasters and urina virginis pueri, the sovereign eye wash which later became the favorite collyrium of that great medieval Spanish ophthalmologist who became Pope John XXI.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another method employed the substance called collyrium; this is a preparation of Bruttian pitch, bitumen, pounded glass, wax, and mastich.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
A man happened to find on the road a silver brooch, which women use for applying collyrium to their eyes.
From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by Arbuthnot, F. F.
On one of these seals we find the word aromaticu, from aromaticum; on another, melinu, abbreviation of melinum,—a collyrium prepared with the alum of the island of Melos.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
O for the collyrium of Tobias inclosed in a whiting's liver to send you with no apocryphal good wishes!
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
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