Chap. 46.] REMEDIES FOR FEMALE DISEASES. 53 



the head only of the surmullet, in combination with honey 

 or with the flesh of the coracinus. Ashes of the murex, ap- 

 plied with oil, disperse tumours, and the gall of the sea-scor- 

 pion makes scars disappear. 



CHAP. 45. REMEDIES FOR WARTS, AND FOR MALFORMED NAILS. 



THE GLANIS : ONE REMEDY. 



To remove warts, the liver of the glanis^^ is applied to the 

 part ; ashes also of heads of maenoe^' bruised with garlic — 

 substances which should be used raw where it is thyme- 

 warts^^ that require to be removed — the gall of the red sea- 

 scorpion,^^* smarides*^^ pounded and applied, or alex''" thoroughly 

 boiled. Ashes of calcined heads of maense^^ are used to rectify 

 malformed nails. 



CHAP. 46. REMEDIES FOR FEMALE DISEASES. THE GLAUCISCUS : 



ONE REMEDY. 



The milk is increased in females by eating the glauciscus"'^ 

 in its own liquor, or else smarides'^^ with a ptisan, or boiled 

 with fennel. Ashes of calcined shells of the murex or purple, 

 applied with honey, are an effectual cure for affections of the 

 mamillse; river-crabs, too, and sea-crabs, applied topically, are 

 equally good. The meat of the murex, applied to the maraillse, 

 removes hairs'* growing upon those parts. The squatina,'^' ap- 

 plied topically, prevents the mamillse from becoming too dis- 

 tended. Lint greased with dolphin's''® fat, and then ignited, 

 produces a smoke which acts as an excitant upon females 

 suffering from hysterical suffocations; the same, too, with 

 strombi,^' left to putrefy in vinegar. Heads of perch or of 



«6 See B. ix. c. 67. ®' See Note 58 above. ^^ "Thymia." 



^** Ajasson thinks that the ancients knew but one kind of sea-scorpion, 

 but in different states, the Cottus scorpius, probably, of Linnaeus. 



69 See Chapter 34 of this Book. 'o See Note 63 above. 



" See Note 58 above. 



'2 This fish has not been identified. It is possible, however, that it 

 may be the same as the " glaucus" mentioned in B ix. c. 25. 



''^ See Note 69 above. 74 See B. xxvi. c. 92. 



'5 See B. ix. cc. 14, 40, 67. 



'6 An asserted remedy, founded, as Ajasson remarks, upon nothing but 

 a pun, the resemblance between dtXflf;, a '* dolphin," and diXfvg, the 

 "womb.'' 



">'' See Chapters 29 and 39 of this Book. 



