42 plint's NATUEAL HISTOIIT. [BookXXXlI, 



administered^' with the food, boiled with a mixture of oil, salt, 

 and meal. Salted msenae, '° applied with bull's gall to the navel, 

 acts as a purgative upon the bowels. 



The liquor of fish, boiled in the saucepan with lettuces, dispels 

 tenesmus. Eiver-crabs,'^ beaten up and taken with water, act 

 astringently upon the bowels, and they have a diuretic effect, if 

 taken with white wine. Deprived of the legs, and taken in 

 doses of three oboli with myrrh and iris, one drachma of each, 

 they disperse urinary calculi. Tor the cure of the iliac pas- 

 sion and of attacks of flatulency, castoreum^' should be taken, 

 with seed of daucus''^ and of parsley, a pinch in three fingers 

 of each, the whole being mixed with four cyathi of warm 

 honied wine. Griping pains in the bowels should be treated 

 with castoreura and a mixture of dill and wine. The fish 

 called '' erythinus," '^ used as food, acts astringently upon the 

 bowels. Dysentery is cured by taking frogs boiled with squills, 

 and prepared in the form of boluses, or else hearts of frogs 

 beaten up with honey, as JS'iceratus''^ recommends. Por the 

 cure of jaundice, salt fish should be taken with pepper, the 

 patient abstaining from all other kinds of meat. 



CHAP. 32. EEMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE SPLEEN, FOE URI- 



NAEY CALCULI, AND FOE AFFECTIONS OF THE BLADDER. THE 

 SOLE : ONE REMEDY. THE TURBOT : ONE REMEDY. THE 

 BLENDIUS : ONE REMEDY. THE SEA-NETTLE : SEVEN EEMEDIES. 

 THE PULMO MAEINUS : SIX EEMEDIES. ONYCHES I FODE EE- 

 MEDIES. 



For the cure of spleen diseases, the fish known as the sole'® 

 is applied to that part ; the torpedo," also, or else a live tur- 

 bot;'^ it being then set at liberty in the sea. The sea- 

 Bcorpion," killed in wine, is a cure for diseases of the bladder 



^5 " Dantur " seems a preferable reading to " datur." 



'0 See B. ix c. 42. 



'^ Our crawfish, the Astacus potamobios of Leach. 



'2 See Chapter 13 of this Book. 



'3 See B. xix. c. 27, and B. xxv. c. 64. 



7* See B. ix. cc. 23, 77. ^^ See end of B. xxxi. 



'6 See B. ix. cc. 20, 24, 36. 



" See B. ix. cc. 24, 48. 67, 74, 75. 



'8 " Rhombus." See B. ix. cc. 20, 36, 67, 79. 



" See Chapters 23, 34, 30 and 53 of this Book. 



