Aegyptiacum, or ægyptiacum, was used in pharmacy as a kind of detersive, or cleansing unguent.
It is so called from its dusky hue or color, which resembles the swarthy complexion of the Egyptian people.
One of the ingredients in a wound-cleansing plaster made by Henry VIII of England's Surgeon Thomas Gale in his handbook, Certaine Workes of Chirurgerie.
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.).
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