A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c10.t23: A Linctus
A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c10.t23
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A Linctus
v1.c10.t23.1
With certain vegetable drugs and "riparian sulphide of antimony,"² a linctus is made up with honey into a paste. (Pt. ii. fasc. 11. p. 123)
v1.c10.t23.2
² Srotaja anjana; it is one of the five kinds of anjana or substances used for collyriums. The word literally means produced from a river, especially from the Yamuna. See Garbe's "Indische Mineralien," p. 54.
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- Bower Manuscript — Sanskrit