rhap. 85.] REMEDIES FOR RTJPTUEES. 205 



ashes of that plant. For a similar purpose, also, the fungus 

 that is found growing near the root of fennel-giant is still 

 more efS.cacious. 



CHAP. 84. STEPHANOMELIS. 



For bleeding at the nostrils, seed of hemlock, pounded in 

 'v^ater, is considered efficacious, as also stephanomelis,''^ applied 

 A\ ith water. Powdered betony, taken with goat's milk, or 

 bruised plautago,^^ arrests discharges of blood from the ma- 

 ijiillse. Juice of plantago is administered to patients when 

 vomiting blood. For local discharges of blood, an application of 

 root of persolata^^ with stale axle-grease is highly spoken of. 



CHAP. 85. — ee:m:edies for eupttjees and convulsions. 



ERTSITHALES : ONE EEMEDY. 



For ruptures, convulsions, and falls with violence, the greater 

 eentaury^' is used ; root of gentian poimded or boiled ; juice of 

 betony — this last being employed also for ruptures produced by 

 straining the vocal organs or sides — panaces f^ scordium f^ or 

 aristolochia*^ taken in drink. For contusions and falls, agaric 

 is taken, in doses of two oboii, in three cyathi of honied wine, 

 or if there are symptoms of fever, hydromel ; the verbascum,^ 

 also, with a golden liower ; root of acoron ;^' the several varieties 

 of aizoiim,^ the juice of the larger kind being particularly 

 efficacious ; juice of Symphytum, ^^ or a decoction of the root of 

 that plant ; daucus,^^ unboiled ; erysithales,^^ a plant with a 

 yellow flower and a leaf like that of acanthus, taken in wine; 

 chamserops f- irio,^^ taken in pottage ; plantago^* taken any 

 way, as also * * ^ ^- 



"^ Dalechamps identifies it with the Potentilla anserina of Liimfeus, 

 Silver-weed, or White tansy ; but on insufficient grounds, Fee thiiiksi 



so See B. xxv. c. 39. »' See B. xxv. c. 66, 



s- See B. xxv. c. 30. ^^ See B. xxv. c. 11, et seq. 



^ See B. xxv. c. 27. ^^ See B. xxv. c. 54. 



^e See B. xxv. c. 73. ^" See B. xxv. c. 100. 



^^ See B. xxv. c. 102. ^^ See B. xxvii. c. 24. 



9" See B. xxv. c. 64. 



5' C. Bauhin identifies it with the Cnicus erysithales of Willdenow ; 

 but that plant, Fee says, was unknown to the Greeks. 



'■>• See B. xxiv. c. 80. ^" See B. xviii. c. 10. 



9* See B. xxv. c. 39.. 



