Chap. 79.] EEMEDIES rOR ABSCESSES. '201 



Leaves of tussilago^^ are also used in water for this purpose ; 

 the seed of either kind of linozostis/^ sprinkled in the drink, or 

 made into a decoction with chick-pease or wormwood : hyssop 

 berries taken in water; the plant lichen,-'^ all other vege- 

 tables being carefully abstained from while it is being used ; 

 polythrix,-^ taken in wine ; and struthion,-^ in honied wine. 



CHAP. 77. EEMEDIES EOK BOILS. 



There are boils also, known as "furunculi,"-^ which make 

 their appearance indiscriminately on all parts of the body, and 

 are productive of the greatest inconvenience : sometimes 

 indeed, when the constitution is exhausted, they are fatal in 

 their effects. For their cure, leaves of pycnocomon'^ are em- 

 ployed, beaten up with polenta,*^ if the boil has not come to a 

 head. They are dispersed also by an application of leaves of 

 ephedron.-^ 



CHAP. 78. EEMEDIES EOE FISTULA. 



Fistulas, too, insidiously attack all parts of the body, owing 

 to unskilfulness on the part of medical men in the use of the 

 knife. The smaller centaury-'^ is used for their cure, with the 

 addition of lotions'-® and boiled honey : juice of plantago*^ is 

 also employed, as an injection ; cinquefoil, mixed with salt and 

 honey ; ladanum,^*^ combined with castoreum f^ cotyledon,"''^ 

 applied hot with stag's marrow ; pith of the root of verbascum^^ 

 reduced to a liquid state in the shape of a lotion, and injected ; 

 root of aristolochia j^"* or juice of tithymalos."^ 



CHAP. 79. EEMEDIES EOR ABSCESSES AND HAED TUMOURS. 



Abscesses and inflammations are cured by an application of 

 leaves of argemonia.^® For indurations and gatherings of all 

 descriptions a decoction of vervain or cinquefoil in vinegar is 



'^ Or Bechion. See B. xxiv. c. 85. 



19 See B. XXV. c. 19. 20 gge c. 10 of this Book. 



21 See B. XXV. c. 83. - gge B. xix. c. 18. 



23 "Little thieves," literally. 21 gee c. 36 of this Book. 



^ See B. xviii. c. 14. 26 g^e c. 83 of this Book. 



27 See B. XXV. c. 31. 28 a Collyriis." 



29 See B. XXV. c. 39 3o gee B. xii. c. 37, and c. 30 of this Book. ^ 



31 See B. viii. c. 47. ^2 gee B. xxv. c. 101. 



^ See B. xxv. c. 73. ^^ See B. xxv. c. 54. 



35 See c. 39 of this Book. 3^ g^^e B. xxv. c. 06. 



