Interesting facts about miltos:
Miltos (or Milton) was most commonly known in Antiquity and the Middle Ages as Lemnia sphragis, Terra Lemnia or Terra sigillata (sealed earth). It was used as a medicine, for this, it was purified, shaped as a pill, sealed with a stamp and dried. Usually it were stamped with the figure of a goat, and later, with the image of Artemis.
Dioscorides asserts that the clay was mixed with goat's blood and thereafter stamped with the figure of a goat (Materia Medica, book v, 97), but Galenus questions his assertion (De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus. 9.2)
Miltos (or Milton) was most commonly known in Antiquity and the Middle Ages as Lemnia sphragis, Terra Lemnia or Terra sigillata (sealed earth). It was used as a medicine, for this, it was purified, shaped as a pill, sealed with a stamp and dried. Usually it were stamped with the figure of a goat, and later, with the image of Artemis.
Dioscorides asserts that the clay was mixed with goat's blood and thereafter stamped with the figure of a goat (Materia Medica, book v, 97), but Galenus questions his assertion (De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus. 9.2)
Quote:"The Lemnian Earth comes from a cave-like hollow on the island Lemnos. It is dug out there and mixed with goat's blood, the people form it to pills and seal those with a seal with a goat on it, called 'goat’s seal' because of this practice. It is very useful against deadly poisons. Taken mixed in wine it forces to vomit the poisons. It is a good remedy against bites and stings of poisonous animals. Some use it for cleansing rituals and it is very useful against dysentery." (De materia medica. 5.113)
Quote:"In medicine it is very highly esteemed. Applied to the eyes in the form of a liniment, it allays defluxions and pains in those organs, and arrests the discharges from lachrymal fistulas. To persons vomiting blood, it is administered with vinegar to drink. It is taken also internally for affections of the spleen and kidneys; and by females for the purpose of arresting flooding. It is employed too, to counteract the effects of poisons, and of stings inflicted by sea or land serpents; hence it is that it is so commonly used as an ingredient in antidotes." (Naturalisl Historia. 35, 33f)You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..