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same, too, with the leaves, taken in doses of one drachma in 

 drink. The leaves, if applied to the lower regions of the 

 abdomen with barley-meal, will prove equally efficacious. 



Acoron 2 is very useful for internal complaints of females ; 

 as also the two varieties of conyza, 3 and crethmos. 4 Either 

 kind of anthyllis, 6 taken in wine, is remarkably good for uterine 

 affections, griping pains in that organ, and retardations of the 

 after- birth. Callithrix, 6 applied as a fomentation, is curative 

 of affections of the vagina : it removes scaly eruptions 7 also 

 of the head, and, beaten up in oil, it stains the hair. Ge- 

 ranion, 8 taken in white wine, or hypocisthis 9 in red, arrests 

 all uterine discharges. Hyssop modifies hysterical suffocations. 

 Eoot of vervain, taken in water, is a most excellent remedy 

 for all accidents incident to, or consequent upon, delivery. 

 Some persons mix bruised cypress seed with peucedanum 10 in 

 red wine. Seed, too, of psyllion,^ boiled in water and taken 

 warm, has a soothing effect upon all defluxions of the uterus. 

 Symphyton, 12 bruised in wine, promotes menstruation. Juice 

 of scordotis, 13 in the proportion of one drachma to four cyathi 

 of hydromel, accelerates delivery. Leaves of dittany are given 

 for the same purpose, in water, with remarkable success. It 

 is a well-known fact, too, that these leaves, to the extent of a 

 single obolus even, will bring away the foetus instantaneously, 

 even when dead, without the slightest inconvenience to the 

 patient. Pseudodictamnum 14 is productive of a somewhat 

 similar effect, but not in so marked a degree : cyclaminos, 16 

 too, attached as an amulet ; cissanthemos, 16 taken in drink ; 

 and powdered betony, in hydromel. 



CHAP. 91. ARSENOGONON I ONE MEDICINAL PROPERTY. THELT- 



GONON I ONE MEDICINAL PROPERTY. 



Arsenogonon 17 and thelygonon are plants, both of them, 



2 See B. xxv. c. 100. 3 See B. xxi. c. 29. 



4 See B. xxv. c. 96. 5 See B. xxi. c. 103. 



6 See B. xxii. e. 30, and B. xxv. c. 86. 7 " Albugines." 



8 See c. 68 of this Book. 9 See c. 31 of this Book. 



10 See B. xxv. c. 70. n See B. xxv. c. 90. 



12 See B. xxvii. c. 24. 13 See B. xxv. c. 27. 



14 See B. xxv. c. 53. 15 See B. xxv. c. 67. 



16 See B. xxv. c. 68. 



17 These two plants, the names of which signify " begetting males," 



