Stop unstoppable blood with dried human blood
To stop blood that flows unstoppably. Take human blood, either from a vein-cutter or from any other pens to come, and throw it into a wide-mouthed vessel. Dry it in the sun, and on the first day you will find a watery part floating on top. This must be thrown out, and the rest made dry; and at the time of need plaster it on and bind it. For it will stand, even if the flow is hard to check.
Greek
2.9 Πρὸς αἷμα δυσκατασχέτως ῥέον Λαβὼν ἀνθρώπειον αἷμα εἴτε ἀπὸ φλεβοτόμου εἴτε ἐξ ἄλλου του οἵου δήποτε <ἂν> τύχῃ τρόπου καὶ βαλὼν εἰς ἄγγος πλατύστομον, ξήραινε ἐν ἡλίῳ καὶ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ ἡμέρᾳ εὑρήσεις ἐπιπολάζον ὑδατῶδες· τοῦτο χρὴ ἐκβάλλειν ξηρόν τε ποιεῖν τὸ λοιπόν, κἀπὶ τῆς χρείας κατάπλασον <καὶ> ἐπίδησον· σταθήσεται γάρ, εἰ κἂν δυσκατάσχετον ᾖ.
About this text
Julius Africanus, Cesti (Embroidered Girdles): a miscellany of history, science, and craft, in the surviving fragments — books 7, 2, and 3 in full, with parts of books 4, 8, 9, and 13, and the colophon of Cestus 18. The older English translates his letters only. The book-2 table of contents and a book-7 appendix are not in this volume.
New English from locked PG 10 / Khazarzar Greek of the Cesti fragmenta through 9.5. Earlier lemma-led scaffold English was discarded. Book-2 pinax and book-7 appendix held. This lock is exhausted.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 10 Cesti fragmenta (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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