224 plint's natural HISTOST. [Book XX. 



the nostrils being plugged with the P^^^^' P^^j^^^f ' ^'^ J^^^ 

 mixed with nut-galls or mint. The juice of it, taken with 

 womanrinilk,ariBts^ after a miscarriage ; and it is 



TmedlalincaLes even of inveterate cough and of affections 

 of^hec>.est^^ and lungs. The leaves, applied topically, are 

 fmpb^^^^^^ cure'of pimples, burns and epmyctis-- 



tSsS being the name given to an ulcer known ako as 

 - Tce''" situate in the corner of the eye, from which there 

 is I Jontinual running: some persons, however, give this 

 name to livid pustules, which cause great restlessness m the 

 St Other kinds of ulcers, too, are treated with leeks 

 beaten up with honey: used with vinegar, they are exten- 

 sively emVyed also for the bites of wild beasts, as well as 

 Sents a^d other venomous creatures. Mixed with goats 

 ^alT or else honied wine in equal proportions, they are used 

 for affections of the ears, and, combined with woman s milk, 

 fo singing in the ears. In cases of head-ache, the juice is 

 injected into the nostrils, or else into the ear at bed-time, 

 two spoonfuls of juice to one of honey. 



This iuice is taken too with pure wine,^« for the stmgs of 

 serpents and scorpions, and, mixed with a semi-sextarius ot 

 wL'e, for lumbago' The juice, or the leek ^tse f, eaten as a 

 food is very beneficial to persons troubled with spitting ot 

 blood, phthisis, or inveterate catarrhs; in cases also of jaun- 

 dice or dropsy, and for nephretic pains, it is taken in barley- 

 water, in doses of one acetabulum of juice The same dose, 

 too, mixed with honey, effectually purges the uterus. Leeks 

 are eaten, too, in cases of poisoning by fungi,^^and are app ed 

 topically to wounds: they act also as an aphrodisiac, allay 

 thirst, and dispel the effects of drunkenness ; but they 

 have the effect of weakening the sight and causing flatulency, 

 it is said, though, at the same time, they are not mjui^ious to 

 15 Fee thinks tbat boiled leeks may possibly, with some justice, be 



""' Thir- PwtrcK here remarks, is a difFereut disease from that 

 previously mentioned in c. 6 of this Book. 



17 Prom tlie Greek ovk)), " a fig." 



19 '<Merum." 



19 They would be of no utility whatever. 



20 This is an unfounded statement, Fee says. 



