CLap. 59.] GLAUCION. 247 



is a plant with a stem and leaves like those of the nettle, only 

 smaller ; and which, when bruised, emit a powerful smell. The 

 flower is purple, and the plant is found growing everywhere, 

 about hedges and foot-paths. The leaves and stems, bruised in 

 vinegar, and applied topically, are curative of indurations, 

 carcinomata, and scrofulous sores. They disperse also inflam- 

 matory tumours and imposthumes of the parotid glands, and 

 it is found a useful plan to foment the parts aflected with a 

 decoction of them. Applied with salt, this plant is curative 

 of putrid ulcers and gangrenous sores. 



CHAP. 58. THE GLAUX : ONE REMEDY.. 



The glaux'* was known in ancient times as the '' eugalac- 

 ton.""^ In the leaves it resembles the cytisus and the lentil, 

 only that they are Avhiter beneath. The branches, five or six 

 in number, are extremely thin, and, springiug from the root, 

 creep upon the ground, with small purple blossoms upon them. 

 This plant is found in localities near the sea. It is boiled in 

 a pottage made of similago,'^ to increase the milk : females, 

 however, after taking it, must immediately use the bath, 



CHAP. 59. (10.) GLAUCION : THREE KEMEDIES. PIAGLAUCIA : 



TWO EEMEDIES. 



Glaucion"^ grows in Syria and Parthia ; it is a plant of 

 stunted growth, and thickly covered with leaves, like those of 

 the poppy in appearance, only smaller and of a more repulsive 

 aspect : it has an offensive smell, and a bitter, astringent taste. 

 The seed, which is of a safl'ron colour, is put into a vessel 

 coated with potter's clay, and heated in an oven ; when taken 

 out, a juice'^^ is extracted, which is known by the same name as 

 the plant. This juice and the leaves, bruised, are used for de- 

 fluxions of the eyes, which disappear in an instant, under this 



'^ Fee thinks that it may possibly be the Astragalus glanx of Linnfeus, 

 or Milk vetch, as originally suggested by Clusius. Littre gives as its 

 synonym tlie Sennebierra coronopus of Poireau. 



'^ The " Good milk " plant. 



'6 See B. xviii. cc. 19, 20. 



" See B. XX. c. 78, where a similar plant is mentioned. Fee identifies 

 this plant with the Glaiiciura bybridum, or Chelidonium of Linnteus, 

 the Yiolet-coloured celandine, or horned poppy. Littrd gives the Glau- 

 ciura flavum of Linnaeus as its synonym. 



'" This is a yellow, acrid, caustic juice j it is no longer used in medicine. 



