42 PLINY'S yATUEAL HISTORY. [Hook XXXII 



administered 65 with the food, boiled with a mixture of oil, salt, 

 and iceul. Salted ma?na2, 70 applied with bull's gull to the navel, 

 acts as a purgative upon the bowels. 



The liquor of fish, boiled in the saucepan with lettuces, dispels^ 

 tenesmus. Kiver-crabs, 71 beaten up and taken with water, aeT 

 astringently upon the bowels, and they have a diuretic effect, if 

 taken with white wine. Deprived of the legs, and taken in 

 doses of throe oboli with myrrh and iris, one drachma of each, 

 they disperse urinary calculi. For the cure of the iliac pas- 

 sion and of attacks of flatulency, castoreum 7 - should bo taken, 

 with seed of daucus 73 and of parsley, a pinch in three lingers 

 of each, the whole being mixed with four cyathi of warm 

 honied wine. Griping pains in the bowels should be treated 

 with castoreum and a mixture of dill and wine. The iish 

 called " erythinus," 71 used as food, acts astringently upon the 

 bowels. Dysentery is cured by taking frogs boiled with squills, 

 and prepared in the form of boluses, or else hearts of frogs 

 beaten up with honey, as Nicoratus 7 * recommends. For the 

 cure of jaundice, salt iish should be taken with pepper, the 

 patient abstaining from all other kinds of meat. 



CHAP. 32. KF.MEDIKS FOR DISEASES OF THE SPLEEN, FOE UUI- 



JJAKY CALCULI, AND FOK AFFECTIONS OF THE JiLADDEH. THE 



SOLE: ONE IIEMKDY. THE TUKBOT : ONE HEM ED v. TJIE 



BLENDRJS: ONE KKMKDY. THE SKA-NETTLE I SEVEN HEM EDI KS. 

 THE PULMO MAUINUS: SIX HEMEDIES. OXYCIIES: FOUli H. 

 MEDIKS. 



For the cure of spleen diseases, the fish known as the sole 76 

 is applied to that part; the torpedo, 77 also, or else a live tur- 

 bot;~* it being then set at liberty in the sea. The sea- 

 scorpion, 79 killed in wine, is a cure for diseases of the bladder 



C9 " Dantur " scorns a preferable reading to " datur." 



70 See 15. ix c. 42. 



71 Our crawfish, the Astacus potaniobios of Leach. 



72 See Chapter 13 of this Book. 



7 See 15. xix. c. 27, and B. xxv. c. 04. 



? See B. ix. cc. 23, 77. " See end of B. xxxi. 



* See B. ix. cc. 20, 24, 36. 



'* See B. ix. cc. 24, 48, 67, 74, 75. 



* " Rhombus." See B. ix. cc. 20, 36, 67, 79. 



79 See Chapters 23, 34, 30 aud 53 of this Book. 



