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Dioscorides writeth of two kinds of this earth.
1. White and not weighty described as before, called by some Collyrion.
2. Crustacea or of a crusty substance thick after the manner of whet-stones. These being calcined and washed like the Eretriades, are thought to be of the same vertues, power, and force.