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of burden even ; but care must be taken, in cases of tertian 

 fever, to cut the plant at the third joint, and of quartan fever 

 at the fourth. The seed of either kind of hypericon^*^ is taken 

 also for quartan fevers and cold shiverings. Powdered betony 

 modifies these fits, and panaces^^ is of so warming a nature 

 that persons when about to travel amid the snow are recom- 

 mended to drink an infusion of it, and to rub the body all over 

 with the plant. Aristolochia^^* also arrests shivering produced 

 by cold. 



CHAP. 72. REMEDIES FOR PHRENITIS, LETHARGY, AND 



CARBUNCLES. 



Phrenitis is cured by sleep induced by the agency of an 

 infusion of peucedanum^^ in vinegar, poured upon the head, or 

 else by the juice of either kind of anagallis.^'^* On the other 

 hand, when patients are suffering from lethargy, it is with the 

 greatest difficulty that they are aroused ; a result which may 

 be effected, they say, by touching the nostrils with juice of 

 peucedanum in vinegar. For the cure of insanity, betony is 

 administered in drink. Panaces®^ brings carbuncles to a head, 

 and makes them break; and they are equally cured by 

 powdered betony applied in water, or else cabbage leaves 

 mixed with frankincense in warm water, and taken in con- 

 siderable quantities. For a similar purpose, a red-hot coal is 

 extinguished in the patient's presence, and the ashes are taken 

 up with the finger and applied to the sore. Bruised plantago^* 

 is also used for the cure of carbuncles. 



CHAP. 73. REMEDIES FOR DROPSY. ACTE OR EBIJLIJM. 



CHAM^ACTE. 



For the cure of dropsy, tithymalos characias®* is employed ; 

 panaces^^ also ; plantago,^^ used as a diet, dry bread being 

 eaten first, without any drink ; betony, taken in doses of two 

 drachmae in two cyathi of ordinary wine or honied wine ; 

 agaric or seed of lonchitis,^'' in doses of two spoonfuls, in 



^^ See Chapters 53 and 54 of this Book. 



^^ See B. XXV. c. 11, et seq. *i' See B. xxv. c. 54. 



32 See B. xxv. c. 70. 82» gge B. xxv. c. 92. 



*>3 See B xxv. c. 11, et seq. ^* See B. xxv. c. 39. 



•^^ See c. 39 of this Book. ^^ gee B. xxv, c. 11, et seq. 



86 See B. xxv. c, 39. 87 gee B. xxv. c. 88. 



