Chap. 71.] REMEDIES FOB FEVERS. 197 



of cinquefoil are taken, also, in water. Archezostis 72 is also 

 curative of epilepsy, but it must be taken constantly for a 

 year ; root of bacchar, 73 too, dried and powdered, and taken in 

 warm water, in the proportion of three cyathi to one cyathus 

 of coriander; centunculus 74 also, bruised in vinegar, warm 

 water, or honey ; vervain, taken in wine ; hyssop 75 berries, 

 three in number, pounded and taken in water, for sixteen days 

 consecutively ; peucedanum, 76 taken in drink with sea-calf's 

 rennet, in equal proportions ; leaves of cinquefoil, bruised in 

 wine and taken for thirty days ; powdered betony, in doses of 

 three denarii, with one cyathus of squill vinegar and an ounce 

 of Attic honey ; as also scammony, in the proportion of two 

 oboli to four drachmae of castoreum. 



CHAP. 71. REMEDIES FOR FEVERS. 



Agaric, taken in warm water, alleviates cold fevers : sideritie, 

 in combination with oil, is good for tertian fevers ; bruised 

 ladanum 77 also, which is found in corn fields ; plantago, 78 taken 

 in doses of two drachmae, in hydromel, a couple of hours before 

 the paroxysms come on ; juice of the root of plantago made 

 warm or subjected to pressure ; or else the root itself beaten up 

 in water made warm with a hot iron. Some medical men pre- 

 scribe three roots of plantago, in three cyathi of water ; and 

 in a similar manner, four roots for quartan fevers. When 

 buglossos 79 is beginning to wither, if a person takes the pith out 

 of the stem, and says while so doing, that it is for the cure 

 of such and such a person suffering from fever, and then 

 attaches seven leaves to the patient, just before the paroxysms 

 come on, he will experience a cure, they say. 



Fevers too, those which are attended with recurrent cold 

 shiverings more particularly, are cured by administering one 

 drachma of betony, or else agaric, in three cyathi of hydromel. 

 Some medical men recommend three leaves of cinquefoil for 

 tertian, four for quartan, and an increased number for other 

 fevers ; while others again prescribe in all cases three oboli of 

 cinquefoil, with pepper, in hydromel. 



Vervain, administered in water, is curative of fever, in beasts 



73 See B. xxiii. c. 16. 73 See B. xxi. c. 16. 



74 See B. xxiv. c. 88. 75 See B. xxv, c. 87. 



76 See B. xxv. c. 70. 77 See c. 30 of this Book. 



18 See B, xxv. c. 39. 79 See B. xxv. c. 40. 



