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the scorpion, which is set at liberty after the operation, or 

 the person who has attached the amulet, for the space of 

 three days: after the recurrence, too, of the third paroxysm, 

 he must bury the whole in the ground. Some enclose a cater- 

 pillar in a piece of linen with a thread passed three times 

 round it, and tie as many knots, repeating at each knot why it 

 is that the patient performs that operation. A slug is some- 

 times wrapped in a piece of skin, or the heads of four slugs, 

 cut from the body with a reed : a millepede is rolled up in 

 wool : the small grubs that produce the gadfly, 38 are used 

 before the wings of the insect are developed ; or any other kind 

 of hairy grub is employed that is found adhering to prickly 

 shrubs. Some persons attach to the body four of these grubs, 

 enclosed in an empty walnut shell, or else some of the snails 

 that are found without a shell. 



In other cases, again, it is the practice to enclose a spotted 

 lizard in a little box, and to place it beneath the pillow of the 

 patient, taking care to set it at liberty when the fever abates. 

 It is recommended also, that the patient should swallow the 

 heart of a sea-diver, removed from the bird without the aid of 

 iron, it being first dried and then bruised and taken in warm 

 water. The heart of a swallow is also recommended, with 

 honey ; and there are persons who say that, just before the 

 paroxysms come on, the patient should take one drachma of 

 swallow's dung in three cyathi of goats' milk or ewes' milk, 

 or of raisin wine : others, again, are of opinion that the birds 

 themselves should be taken, whole. The nations of Parthia, 

 as a remedy for quartan fevers, take the skin of the asp, in 

 doses of one sixth of a denarius, with an equal quantity of 

 pepper. The philosopher Chrysippus has left a statement to 

 the effect, that the phryganion, 39 worn as an amulet, is a 

 remedy for quartan fevers ; but what kind of animal this is he 

 has nowhere informed us, nor have I been able to meet with 

 any one who knows. Still, however, I felt myself bound to 

 notice a remedy that was mentioned by an author of such high 

 repute, in case any other person should happen to be more 

 successful in his researches. To eat the flesh of a crow, and 



ss See B. xi. c. 38. 



39 Some suppose that this was an insect that lived among dry wood, 

 and derive the name from the Greek <ppvyavbv. Queslon is of opinion that 

 it is the salamander. 



