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its efficacy as a cure, is held in preference. It is found grow- 

 ing among rocks, and has a single broad leaf 42 near the root, 

 and a single long stem, with small leaves hanging from it. 

 This plant has the property also of effacing brand marks, 

 being beaten up with honey for that purpose. There is another 

 kind 43 of lichen also, which adheres entirely to rocks, like 

 moss, and which is equally used as a topical application. The 

 juice of it, dropt into wounds, or applied to abscesses, has the 

 property of arresting haemorrhage : mixed with honey, it is 

 curative of jaundice, the face and tongue being rubbed with 

 it. Under this mode of treatment, the patient is recommended 

 to wash in salt water, to anoint himself with oil of almonds, 

 and to abstain from garden vegetables. For the cure of 

 lichen, root of thapsia 44 is also used, bruised in honey. 



CHAP. 11. QTJINZY. 



For the treatment of quinzy, we find argemonia 45 recom- 

 mended, in wine; a decoction of hyssop, boiled with figs, 

 used as a gargle ; peucedanum, 46 with an equal proportion of 

 sea-calf's rennet; proserpinaca, 47 beaten up in the pickle of the 

 maena 48 and oil, or else placed beneath the tongue; as also 

 juice of cinquefoil, taken in doses of three cyathi. Used as a 

 gargle, juice of cinquefoil is good for the cure of all affections 

 of the fauces : verbascum, 49 too, taken in wine, is particularly 

 useful for diseases of the tonsillary glands. 



CHAP. 12. (5.) SCROFULA. 



For the cure of scrofula 50 plantago is employed, chelidonia 61 

 mixed with honey and axle-grease, cinquefoil, and root of per- 



42 Identified by Fee with the Marchantia polymorpha of Linnaeus, Com- 

 mon Marchantia, or Fountain liverwort, the male plant. 



43 Identified by Fee with the Marchantia stellata, Star-headed Mar- 

 chantia, or Female fountain liverwort. Desfontaines takes it to be either 

 the Marchantia conica, or the Peltidea caiiina. It must be remembered 

 that the Marchantia is not a Lichen in the modern acceptation of the word, 

 and that our Lichens are destitute of stem. Littre identifies it with the 

 Lecanora parella. 



44 See B. xiii. c. 43. See B. xxv. c. 66. 



46 See B. xxv. c. 70. 47 See B. xxvii. c. 104. 



** See B. ix. c. 42. 49 See B. xxv. c. 73. 



50 Fee remarks that none of the plants here mentioned are of any utility 

 for the cure of scrofula. 51 See B. xxv. c. 50. 



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