3 o4 MATERIA MEDIC A. 
ture, which is the fame as the Naphta of authors, , 
hardened by the heat of the fun. The Egyptians 
call it, Mumia Miner alis,irom the exact refemblance 
it bears to the mafs, which is taken out of the 
fkull of the Mummies in Egypt. 
Unguentum Mumiae. Ointment of Mumy. 
The Egyptians make an unguentum potabile, 
or liquid ointment of Mumy, by mixing the 
powder of Mumy with butter, which they call 
Manteg , this they take inwardly when they are 
wounded. A credible perfon in Alexandria af* 
fured me, that he faw a Moor perfectly cured in a 
Ihort time, without having ufed or applied any 
other medicine, of a wound in the fide, between 
the ribs, made with a knife, which had pierced 
the mufculos intercoftales •, this man immediately 
drank a dofe of this ointment, about lbij, and 
likewife anointed the wound with feme of it. 
The Egyptians ufe it alfo frequently for their 
cattle, camels, affes, v fheep, oxen, &c. & c. both 
inwardly and outwardly, for wounds, fractures, 
againft witchcraft, which they believe can hurt 
their cattle, and almolt in all difeafes with which 
their cattle are afflicted. 
The method of making Sal Ammoniac in Egypt* 
Sal Ammoniac is made from the foot arifirig 
from the burnt dung of four-footed animals, that 
feed only on vegetables, and of human excrements* 
This dung is collected in the four firtt months 
of the year, when all their cattle, fuch as oxen, 
cows, buffaloes, camels, ffleep, goats, horfes an 
affes, feed on freffl fpring grafs, which in EgyP c ’ 
