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XXII. Observations on certain Stamps or Seals used antiently by the Oculists. By Richard Gough, Director

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Among the lesser articles of antiquity there is none which has given so much occasion for conjecture to the learned as the Inscriptions on the four sides of certain small square stones, which seem to have been used by the practitioners of physic, or the compounders of drugs.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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page 229 note [a] “Sigillum medici Ocularii Romani nuper in agro Jenensi repertum & observationibus illustratum a Jo. Ern. Imman. Walchio, Eloquent. & Poes. Pref. Pub. Ord. Societ. Lat. Jenens. Directore. Accedunt reliqua sigilla & inscriptiones medicorum oculariorum veterum. Jenæ, 1763.”

“Epistola ad Henricum van Wyndetum urbi Brielanæ a consiliis publico suffragii jure, &e. de veteris medici ocularii gemma sphragide prope Trajectum ad Mosam nuper eruta. Traj. ad Rhen. 1773,” 8vo.

page 230 note [b] Composit. med. c. IV. n. 23, p. 32.

page 230 note [c] Lib. de med.

page 230 note [d] VIII. p. 147.

page 231 note [e] Lib. 2. de Comp. Med.

page 231 note [f] XV.

page 240 note * See it engraved at the head of this paper, fig. 2.

page 241 note * Pighius' MS. reads, CYLISORVS.

page 241 note † Others have copied it ILLVSTRIVS.