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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute?
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2 .Medicinal tablets are nothing new.
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3 .Doctors have been dispensing pills for thousands of years.
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4 .And now archaeologists have turned up some of those ancient medicines,
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5 .which were preserved in a shipwreck for close to two millennia.
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6 .The 2nd-century Pozzino wreck was discovered in 1974 off the coast of Italy.
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7 .It's cargo included medical equipment like a cupping vessel, iron probe, and tin boxes of supplies.
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8 .And in one of those boxes, researchers recovered five gray tablets.
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9 .Now, they've analyzed the antique medication.
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10 .The work is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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11 .The pills primarily contained zinc compounds, probably the active medicinal ingredients.
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12 .But researchers also detected starch, pollen, charcoal, fats and linen fibers.
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13 .Those fibers helped the tablets hold their round, loaf-like shape, which may be the key to the medication's use:
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14 .the Greek word meaning "small round loaves" also inspired the word collyrium, or eye-wash.
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15 .The pills were probably either dissolved in liquid or ground into a powder and used to treat eye conditions.
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16 .Who knows, maybe Hippocrates used them on his pupils.
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17 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick.
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