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too, is very good, as already observed, when speaking 25 of 

 diseases of the liver. This last plant is used also for hernia, 

 applied topically or taken in drink : it is remarkably efficacious 

 too for strangury. For calculi some persons recommend 

 betony, vervain, and milfoil, in equal proportions in water, as 

 a sovereign remedy. It is universaDy agreed, that dittany is 

 curative of strangury, and that the same is the case with 

 cinquefoil, boiled down to one third in wine : this last plant is 

 very useful, too, taken internally and applied topically, for 

 rupture of the groin. 



The upper part of the root of xiphion 26 has a diuretic effect 

 upon infants ; it is administered also in water for rupture of 

 the groin, and is applied topically for diseases of the bladder. 

 Juice of peucedanum 27 is employed for hernia in infants, and 

 psyllion 28 is used as an application in cases of umbilical 

 hernia. The two kinds of anagallis 29 are diuretic, and a 

 similar effect is produced by a decoction of root of acoron, 30 or 

 the plant itself bruised and taken in drink ; this last is 

 good too for all affections of the bladder. Both the stem and 

 root of cotyledon 31 are used for the cure of calculi ; and for all 

 inflammations of the genitals, myrrh is mixed in equal propor- 

 tions with the stem and seed. The more tender leaves of 

 ebulum, 32 beaten up and taken with wine, expel calculi of the 

 bladder, and an application of them is curative of diseases of 

 the testes. Erigeron, 33 with powdered frankincense and sweet 

 wine, is curative of inflammation of the testes ; and root of 

 symphytum, 34 applied topically, reduces rupture of the groin. 

 The white hypocisthis 35 is curative of corroding ulcers of the 

 genitals. Artemisia 36 is prescribed also in sweet wine for the 

 cure of calculi and of stranguiy ; and root of nymph asa heraclia, 37 

 taken in wine, allays pains in the bladder. 



CHAP. 50. CEETHMOS: ELEVEN REMEDIES. CACHUY. 



A similar property belongs also to crethmos, 38 a plant highly 



25 See c. 19 of this Book, M See B. xxv. cc. 88, 89. 



27 See B. xxv. c. 70. 2S See B. xxv. c. 90. 



29 See B. xxv. c. 92. 30 See B. xxv. c. 100. 



31 It is quite useless for such a purpose ; and the same is the case, Fee 

 says, with all the asserted remedies mentioned in this Chapter. See B. 

 xxv. c. 101. 32 See B. xxv. c. 71. 



33 See B. xxv. c. 106. 34 See B. xxvii. c. 24. 



35 See c. 31 of this Book. 36 See B. xxv. c. 36. 



37 See B. xxv. c. 37. 38 See B. xxv. c. 96. 



