[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v1.c10.t23 # 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 - **Language:** English ### A Linctus ### [v1.c10.t23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.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. ## Cites (1) - [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c10.t23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c10.t23) · Pramāṇa