44 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Hook XXXII. 



male scallop has a diuretic effect : the flesh of the female is 

 sweeter than that of the male, and of an uniform colour. 

 The eggs, too, of the sxpia promote the urinary secretions, and 

 act detergently upon the kidneys. 



CHAP. S3. REMEDIES FOR INTESTINAL HERNIA, AND FOR DIS- 

 EASES OF THE RECTUM. THE WATKU-SXAKE : ONB RKMKDY. 

 THE IIYDRUS: ONE REMEDY. THE MULLET: ONE RKMKDY. 

 TUETELAMIS: THREE REMEDIES. 



For the cure of intestinal hernia the sea-hare is applied, 

 bruised with honey. The liver of the water-snake, 89 and that 

 of the hydrus, 90 bruised and taken in drink, are remedial for 

 urinary calculi. Sciatica is cured by using the pickle of the 

 silurus* 1 as a clyster, the bowels being first thoroughly purged. 

 For chafing of the fundament, an application is made of heads 

 of mullets and surmullets, reduced to ashes; for which pur- 

 pose they are calcined in an earthen vessel, and must be ap- 

 plied in combination with honey. Calcined heads, too, of 

 the fish known as micnie 92 are useful for the cure of chaps 

 and condylomata ; as also heads of salted pelumidcs, yj reduced 

 to ashes, or calcined cybium, 91 applied with honey. 



The torpedo,* 4 applied topically, reduces proeidence of the 

 rectum, lliver-crabs, 95 reduced to ashes, and applied with oil 

 and wax, are curative of chaps of the fundament: sea-crabs, 

 too, are equally useful for the purpose. 



CHAP. 34. REMEDIES FOR INFLAMED TUMOURS, AND FOR DISEASES 



OF THE GENERATIVE ORGANS. THE SCI-ENA t ONE REMEDY. 

 THE PERCH: FOUR REMEDIES. THE SUUATIXA: THUEE RE- 

 MEDIES. THE SMA1IIS : THREE REMEDIES. 



The pickle of the coracinus 97 disperses inflammatory tu- 

 mours ; an effect which is equally produced by using the cal- 



** It is not improbable that he may mean the same animal that has been 

 mentioned in cc. 19 and 20 of this Book, the Enhydris. See also B. 

 xxx. c. 8. 



* See B. xxix. c. 22. i S.-ft B. ix. cc. 17, 25, 75. 



See B. ix. c. 42, and Chapter 27 of thin Hook. 



See B. ix. cc. 18, 1'J, and Chapter 53 of this Book. 



M Salted tunny. See B. ix. c. 16. 



See B. ix. cc. 24, 48, 74, 75. 



3 Our crawfish. 97 Sec B. ix. cc. 24, 32. 



