Chap. 51.] EEMEDIES FOR THE DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 57 



sponge moistened with cold water from time to time/ or a frog 

 applied, the back part to the head, is a most efficacious cure for 

 siriasis^ in infants. When the frog is removed, it will be found 

 quite dry, they say. 



CHAP. 49. METHODS OF PREVENTING INTOXICATION. THE FISH 



CALLED EUBELLIO : ONE REMEDY. THE EEL I ONE REMEDY. THE 

 GRAPE-FISH : ONE REMEDY. 



A surmullet^ stifled in wine ; the fish called "rubellio ;"^°or 

 a couple of eels similarly treated ; or a grapefish,^^ left to putrefy 

 in wine, all of them, produce an aversion to wine in those 

 who drink thereof. 



CHAP. 50. ANTAPHE0DISIAC3 AND APHRODISIACS. THE HIPPO- 

 POTAMUS : ONE REMEDY. THE CROCODILE: ONE REMEDY. 



In the number of antaphrodisiacs, we have the echeneis;^'^ the 

 skin from the left side of the forehead of the hippopotamus,^^ 

 attached to the body in lamb-skin ; and the gall of a live tor- 

 pedo,^'* applied to the generative organs. 



The following substances act as aphrodisiacs — the flesh of 

 liver- snails, preserved in salt and given to drink in wine ; the 

 erj^thinus^^ taken as food ; the liver of the frog called ''diopetes" 

 or " calamites"^® attached to the body in a small piece of crane's 

 skin ; the eye-tooth of a crocodile, attached to the arm ; the 

 hippocampus ;^'' and the sinews of a bramble-frog,^® w^orn as 

 an amulet upon the right arm. A bramble-frog, attached to 

 the body in a piece of fresh sheep-skin, effectually puts an end 

 to love. 



CHAP. 51. REMEDIES FOR THE DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 



A decoction of frogs in water, reduced to the form of a lini- 



'' " Crebro humefacto" seems a preferable reading to *' cerebro bume- 

 facto," though supported by the Eaiuberg MS. 



8 See B. xxii. c. 29, and B. xxx. c. 47. » See B. ix. c. 30. 



10 Identified with the "erythinus" of B. ix. c. 23, and mentioned in the 

 next Chapter. ii See B. ix, c. 1. 



12 Or Remora. See B. ix. c. 41. ^^ ggg p^ y\\\^ c. 39. 



1* See Note 90 above. i5 gee B. ix. c. 23. 



16 See Chapter 24 of this Book. i' See B. ix. c. 1. 



i« " Rubeta." See B. viii. c. 48, B. xi. cc. 19, 76, 116, B. xxv. c. 76, 

 and c. 18 of this Book. 



