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used ; leaves or root of verbascum ; 37 a liniment made of wine 

 and hyssop ; root of acoron, 38 a decoction of it being used as a 

 fomentation ; or else aizoiim. 39 Contusions also, hard tumours, 

 and fistulous abscesses are treated with illecebra. 40 



All kinds of foreign substances which have pierced the 

 flesh are extracted by using leaves of tussilago, 41 daucus, 42 or 

 seed of leontopodium 43 pounded in water with polenta. 44 To 

 suppurations, leaves of pycnocomon 45 are applied, beaten up 

 with polenta, or else the seed of that plant, or orchis. 46 An 

 application of root of satyrion 47 is said to be a most efficacious 

 remedy for deep-seated diseases of the bones. Corrosive ulcers 

 and all kinds of gatherings are treated with sea- weed, 48 used 

 before it has dried. Boot, too, of alcima 49 disperses gatherings. 



CHAP. 80. EEMEDIES FOE BTJENS. 



Burns are cured by the agency of plantago, 50 or of arction, 51 

 so effectually indeed as to leave no scar. The leaves of this 

 last plant are boiled in water, beaten up, and applied to the 

 sore. Boots of cyclaminos 52 are used, in combination with 

 aizoum ; 53 the kind of hypericon also, which we have mentioned 

 as being called " corissum." 54 



CHAP. 81. EEMEDIES FOE DISEASES OF THE SINEWS AND JOINTS. 



For diseases of the sinews and joints, plantago, 55 beaten up 

 with salt, is a very useful remedy, or else argemonia, 56 pounded 

 with honey. Patients affected with spasms or tetanus are 

 rubbed with juice of peucedanum. 57 For indurations of the 

 sinews, juice of aegilops 58 is employed, and for pains in those 

 parts of the body erigeron 69 or epithymum, 60 used as a liniment, 



37 See B. xxv. c. 73. 38 See B. xxv. c. 100. 



39 See B. xxv. c. 102. 40 See B. xxv. c. 103. 



41 See B. xxiv. c. 85. 42 See B. xxv. c. 64. 



43 See B. xxvii. c. 72. 44 See B. xviii. c. 14. 



45 See Chapters 36 and 77 of this Book. 



46 See c. 62 of this Book. 4 ? See c. 62 of this Book. 



48 See c. 66 of this Book. 



49 Probably the " Alcea " of B. xxvii. c. 6. See also B. xxv. c. 77. 



50 See B. xxv. c. 39. 6l See B. xxvii. c. 16, 

 32 See B. xxv. c. 67. 53 See B. xxv. c. 102. 



54 Or " Corison." See c. 53 of this Book. 



55 See B. xxv. c. 39. 56 See B. xxv. c. 56. 

 67 See B. xxv. c. 70. 58 See B. xxv. c. 93. 



59 See B. xxv. c. 106. o See c. 35 of this Book. 



