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and then beaten up with polenta, 43 and applied. For all kinds 

 of wounds apollinaris 44 is very useful. Root of astragalus, 45 

 reduced to powder, is good for running ulcers ; the same, too, 

 with callithrix, 46 boiled in water. For blisters, more particu- 

 larly when caused by the shoes, vervain is used, as also pounded 

 lysimachia, 47 or nymphsea 48 dried and powdered ; but when 

 they have assumed the form of inveterate ulcers, polythrix 4 

 will be found more serviceable. 



CHAP. 88. POLYCNEMON I ONE REMEDY. 



Polycnemon 50 is a plant which resembles cunila bubula ; 5l 

 it has a seed like that of pennyroyal, a ligneous stem with 

 numerous articulations, and odoriferous umbels, with a plea- 

 sant though pungent smell. This plant is chewed and applied 

 to wounds inflicted with iron, the application being removed 

 at the end of four days. Symphyton 53 causes sores to cicatrize 

 with the greatest rapidity; the same, too, with sideritis, 53 

 which is applied in combination with honey. The seed and 

 leaves of verbascum, 54 boiled in wine and pounded, are used for 

 the extraction of all foreign substances adhering to the body; and 

 a similar use is made of leaves of mandragora 85 mixed with po- 

 lenta, 56 and roots of cyclaminos 57 with honey. Leaves of trixago, 53 

 bruised in oil, are used for ulcers of a serpiginous nature more 

 particularly, as also sea- weed bruised with honey. Betony, 

 with the addition of salt, is employed for the cure of carcino- 

 matous sores and inveterate blisters on the neck. 



CHAP. 89. EEMEDIES FOR WARTS, AND APPLICATIONS FOR THE 



REMOVAL OF SCARS. 



Argemonia 59 with vinegar, or root of batrachion, 60 removes 

 warts ; this last having the effect also of bringing off malformed 



43 See B. xviii. c. 14. 44 See B. xxv. c. 17. 



45 See c. 29 of this Book. 



46 See B. xxii. c. 30, and B. xxv. c. 86. 47 See B. xxv. c. 35. 

 48 See B. xxv. c. 37. 49 See Note 46 above. 



50 Desfontaines identifies it with the Mentha cervina, or Stag mint. 



51 See B. xix. c. 50, and B. xx. c. 61. 



52 See B. xxvii. c. 24. 53 See B. xxv. c. 19. 

 54 See B. xxv. c. 73. 55 See B. xxv. c. 94. 

 56 See B. xviii. c. 14. 57 See B. xxv. c. 67. 

 58 See B. xxiv. c. 80. 59 See B. xxv. c. 56. 

 60 See B. xxv. c. 109. 



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