Chap. 31.] REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OE THE BOWELS. 39 



purpose. There is a small frog/^ also, which ascends trees, and 

 croaks aloud there : if a person suffering from cough spits into 

 its mouth and then lets it go, he will experience a cure, it is said. 

 For cough attended with spitting of blood, it is recommended 

 to beat up the raw flesh of a snail, and to drink it in hot water. 



CHAP. 30. (9.) REMEDIES FOR PAINS m THE LIVER AND SIDE. 



THE ELOiS^GATED COXCH : SIX REMEDIES. THE TETHEA '. FIYE 

 REMEDIES. 



For pains in the liver, a sea-scorpion is killed in wine, and 

 the liquid is taken. The meat, too, of the elongated conch'° is 

 taken with honied wine and water, in equal quantities, or, if 

 there are symptoms of fever, with hydromel. Pains in the 

 side are assuaged by taking the flesh of the hippocampus,^^ 

 grilled, or else the tethea,^^* very similar to the oyster, with 

 the ordinary food. For sciatica, the pickle of the silurus is 

 injected, by way of clyster. The flesh of conchs, too, is pre- 

 scribed, for fifteen days, in doses of three oboli soaked in two 

 sextarii of wine. 



CH.AP. 31. REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE BOWELS. SEA.-W0RT : 



OXE REMEDY. THE MYAX : TWENTY-FIVE REMEDIES. THE MITU- 



LUS : EIGHT REMEDIES. PELORIDES : ONE REMEDY. SERIPHUM : 

 " TWO REMEDIES. THE ERYTHINUS I TWO REMEDIES. 



The silurus,^- taken in its broth, or the torpedo,^^ used as 

 food, acts as a laxative upon the bowels. There is a sea- wort," 

 also, similar in appearance to the cultivated cabbage: it is 

 injurious to the' stomach, but acts most efficiently as a purga- 

 tive, requiring to be cooked with fat meat for the purpose, in 

 consequence of its extreme acridity. The broth, too, of all 

 boiled fish is good for this purpose ; it acting, also, as a strong 

 diuretic, taken with wine more particularly. The best kind 

 of all is that prepared from the sea-scorpion, the iulis,'^^ and 



*3 The Dryophites of Rondelet, Dalecharaps says. 



50 Identical with the Strombus of cc. 39, 46, and 53 of this Book. 



5^ See B. ix. c. 1, 



51* Littre remarks that PHny here seems to speak of the "Tethea" as 

 a raollusk; whereas in c. 31, from his expression " Fungorura verius 

 generis quam piscium," he would appear to be describing a zoophyte. 



52 See B. ix. cc. 17, 25, 75. 



" See B. ix. cc. 24, 48, 67, 74, 75. ^4 See B. xx. c. 38. 



55 A rock fish, according to Athenaeus, B. vii. Eondelet, B. vi. c. 7, 

 identifies it with the fish called girello by the people of Liguria, the don- 

 zclla of other districts. 



