Chap. 85.] REMEDIES FOE RUPTURES. 205 



ashes of that plant. For a similar purpose, also, the fungus 

 that is found growing near the root of fennel-giant is still 

 more efficacious. 



CHAP. 84. STEPHANOMELIS. 



For bleeding at the nostrils, seed of hemlock, pounded in 

 water, is considered efficacious, as also stephanomelis, 79 applied 

 with water. Powdered betony, taken with goat's milk, or 

 bruised plantago, 80 arrests discharges of blood from the ma- 

 millae. Juice of plantago is administered to patients when 

 vomiting blood. For local discharges of blood, an application of 

 root of persolata 81 with stale axle-grease is highly spoken of. 



CHAP. 85. REMEDIES FOR RUPTURES AND CONVULSIONS, 



ERYSITHALES I ONE REMEDY. 



For ruptures, convulsions, and falls with violence, the greater 

 centaury*- is used ; root of gentian pounded or boiled ; j uice of 

 betony this last being employed also for ruptures produced by 

 straining the vocal organs or sides panaces j 83 scordium j 84 or 

 aristolochia 85 taken in drink. For contusions and falls, agaric 

 is taken, in doses of two oboli, in three cyathi of honied wine, 

 or if there are symptoms of fever, hydromel ; the verbascum, 86 

 also, with a golden flower ; root of acoron ; 87 the several varieties 

 of aizoiim, 88 the juice of the larger kind being particularly 

 efficacious; juice of symphytum, 89 or a decoction of the root of 

 that plant ; daucus, 90 unboiled ; erysithales, 91 a plant with a 

 yellow flower and a leaf like that of acanthus, taken in wine ; 

 chamaerops ; 92 irio, 93 taken in pottage ; plantago 94 taken any 

 way, as also * * * * 



79 Dalechamps identifies it with the Potentilla anserina of Linnaeus, 

 Silver- weed, or White tansy ; bat on insufficient grounds, Fee thinks. 



80 See B. xxv. c. 39. bl See B. xxv. c. 66. 



82 See B. xxv. c. 30. 83 See B. xxv. c. 11, et seq. 



84 See B. xxv. c. 27. 85 See B. xxv. c. 54. 



be See B. xxv. c. 73. 87 See B. xxv. c. 100. 



88 See B. xxv. c. 102. 89 See B. xxvii. c. 24. 



90 See B. xxv. c. 64. 



91 C. Bauhin identifies it with the Cnicus erysithales of Willdeuow ; - 

 but that plant, Fee says, was unknown to the Greeks. 



9 * See B. xxiv. c. 80. 3 See B. xviii. c. 10. 



94 See B. xxv. c. 39., 



