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nails. The juice or the leaves, applied topically, of either 

 kind of linozostis, 61 remove warts. All the varieties of tithy- 

 malos 62 are efficacious for the removal of every kind of wart, 

 as also of hangnails 63 and wens. Ladanum 64 imparts a fresh 

 colour and seemly appearance to scars. 



(15.) The traveller who carries artemisia 65 attached to his 

 person, or elelisphacus, 66 will never be sensible of lassitude, it 

 is said. 



CHAP. 90. REMEDIES FOR FEMALE DISEASES. 



One great remedy for all female diseases in common, is the 

 black seed of the herbaceous plant paeonia, 67 taken in hydro- 

 mel : the root also is an effectual emmenagogue. Seed of 

 panaces, 68 mixed with wormwood, acts as an emmenagogue and 

 as a sudorific: the same, too, with scordotis, 69 taken internally 

 or applied topically. Betony, in doses of one drachma to 

 three cyathi of wine, is taken for various affections of the 

 uterus, as also directly after child-birth. Excessive menstru- 

 ation is arrested by a pessary of achillea, 70 or else a sitting-bath 

 composed of a decoction of that plant. Seed of henbane in 

 wine is used as a liniment for diseases of the mamillge, 

 and the root is employed in the form of a plaster for uterine 

 affections ; chelidonia, 71 too, is applied to the mamillaB. 



Boots of panaces, 72 applied as a pessary, bring away the 

 after-birth and the dead foetus, and the plant itself, taken in 

 wine, or used as a pessary with honey, acts as a detergent 

 upon the uterus. Polemonia, 73 taken in wine, brings away the 

 after-birth ; used as a fumigation, it is good for suffocations of 

 the uterus. Juice of the smaller centaury, 74 taken in drink, or 

 employed as a fomentation, acts as an emmenagogue. The root 

 also of the larger centaury, similarly used, is good for pains in 

 the uterus ; scraped and used as a pessary, it expels the 

 dead foatus. For pains of the uterus, plantago 75 is applied as 

 a pessary, in wool, and for hysterical suffocations, it is taken in 



61 See B. xxv. c. 18. 62 See c. 39 of this Book, et seq. 



es u pterygia." 64 See B. xii, c. 37 and c. 30 of this Book. 



65 See B. xxv. c. 81. 66 See B. xxii. c. 71. 



67 See B. xxv. c, 10. 68 See B. xxv. c. 11, et seq. 



69 See B. xxv. c. 27. 70 See B. xxv. c. 19. 



71 See B. xxv. c. 50. 72 See B. xxv. c. 11, et seq. 



73 See B. xxv. c. 28. 74 See B. xxv. c. 31. 



See B. xxv. c. 39. 



