An archaic term for eye drops or medicinal lotions applied to the eyes.
Combination of 'colly' (possibly from Latin 'collyrium', eye salve) and Greek 'lyria' meaning liquid or solution. This compound term reflects early pharmaceutical terminology for ophthalmic treatments.
Before modern medicine, collylyria was the ancient world's version of eye drops—sometimes they actually worked with herbal ingredients, and sometimes they just made things worse!
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