Chap. Cl.] Iir.MF.DlES POR DISEASES OF TlIE 1JOW1.LS. 39 



purpose. There is a small frog/ also, which ascends tree?, and 

 croaks aloud there: if u person suffering from cough spits into 

 its iriouih and then lets it go, he will experience a cure, it is said. 

 For cough attended with spitting of blood, it is recommended 

 to beat up the raw flesh of a snail, and to drink it in hot water. 



CHAP. 30. (9.) KI:MI:DIKS FOR TAINS IN TIIK LIVKR AND SIDE. 

 THE ELONGATED CONCH I SIX. KEMEDIES. TUE 1EIIIEA : 1'IVE 

 REMEDIES. 



For pains in the liver, a sea-scorpion is killed in wine, and 

 the liquid is taken. The meat, too, of the elongated conch 50 is 

 taken with honied wine and water, in equal quantities, or, if 

 there arc symptoms of fever, with hydroniel. Pains in the 

 side are assuaged by taking the flesh of the "hippocampus, 51 

 grilled, or else the tcthea, &; * very similar to the oyster, with 

 the ordinary food. Tor sciatica, the pickle of the silurus is 

 injected, by way of clyster. The llesh of eonchs, too, is pre- 

 scribed, for fifteen days, in doses of three oboli soaked in two 

 sextarii of wine. 



CHAT'. 31. REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE UOWEL8.. SEA-WOUT ! 



ONE ItKMEDY. Til K WYAX ! TWENTY-PI VK K1OI EDIES. Til K MITU- 

 LUS: EKillT KEMFDIKH. PM.OKIDES : ONE KKMKDY. SEUlPIlUii: 

 TWO KEMEDIES. THE EltYTIIINUS : TWO REMEDIES. 



The silurus, 5 -' taken in its broth, or the torpedo, 53 used as 

 food, acts as a laxative upon the bowels. There is a sea- wort," 

 also, similar in appearance to the cultivated cabbage : it is 

 injurious to the. stomach, but acts most efficiently as a purga- 

 tive, requiring to be cooked with fat meat for the purpose, in, 

 consequence of its extreme acridity. The broth, too, of all 

 boiled fish is good for this purpose ; it acting, also, as a strong 

 diuretic, taken with wine more particularly. The best kind 

 of all is that prepared from the sea-scorpion, the iulis, M and 



49 The Dryophites of Rondelet, Dolcchampi says. 



50 Identical with the tStrumbus of cc. 39, 40, aiid 53 of this Book. 

 61 See 13. ix. c. 1. 



M * Littre remarks that Pliny here seems to speak of the "Tcthea" as 

 a mollusk; whon-a* in c. 31, from his expression " Fungorum verius 

 generis qnam piscium," he would appear to be describing a zoophyte. 



*'- See B. ix. ec. 17, 25, 75 



63 See B. ix. cc. 24, 48, 07, 7-4, 75. M Sec B. xx. c. 38. 



65 A rock fish, according to Athenams, B. vii. Kondclet, B. vi. c. 7, 

 identifies it with the fi.sh called gircllo by the people of Liguria, the </y/<- 

 sclla of other districts. 



