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cincd intestines and scales of the sciiena. 9 * The sea-scorpion,* 9 

 too, is used for the same purpose, boiled in wine, and applied 

 as a fomentation to the part affected. Shells of sea-urchins, 

 bruised and applied with water, act as a check upon incipient 

 inflammatory tumours. Ashes of the murex, or of the purple, 

 are employed in either case, whether it is wanted to disperse 

 inflammatory tumours in an incipient state, or to bring them 

 to a head and break them. Some authorities prescribe the fol- 

 lowing preparation: of wax and frankincense twenty drachma?, 

 of litharge forty drachma?, of calcined murex ten drachmae, 

 and of old oil, one semisexturius. Salt li^. boiled and ap- 

 plied by itself, is highly useful for the above purposes. 



Kiver crabs, bruised and applied, disperse pustules on the 

 generative organs: the same, too, with calcined heads of 

 jiiienjc, 1 or the ilesh of that ii>h, boiled and applied. Heads 

 of salted perch,- reduced to ashes, and applied with honey, arc 

 equally useful for the purpose; or else calcined heads of pe- 

 lam ides, 3 or skin of the squutina reduced to ashes. 4 It is the 

 skin of this tish that is used, as already 8 stated, for giving a 

 polish to wood ; for the sea even, we iind, furnishes its aid to our 

 artificers. For a similar purpose the fishes called " smarides"' 

 are applied topically ; as also ashes of the shell of the murex 

 or of the purple, applied with honey ; which last are still more 

 tllicacious when the ilrsh has been burnt with the shell. 



Salt fish, boiled with honey, is particularly good for the 

 cure of carbuncles upon the generative organs. Por relaxation 

 of the testrs, the slime 7 of suails is recommended, applied in 

 the form of a liniment. 



w Sec B. ix. c. 24. 



99 See Chapters 23, 2-1* 30, 32, and 53 of the present Book. Also D. 

 xx. c. 53. * See B. ix. c. 42. 



2 " 1'erca." Sec B. ix. c. 24. 3 Sec Note 93 above. 



4 See U. ix. c. 14. In H. ix. c. 14. 



8 Ajasson remarks that many writers have identified the Smaris with the 

 Sardine or the Anchovy. In his opinion, however, it is neither; but lie 

 thinks that under this head were included seven or eight varieties of the 

 Pickerel, the principal of which arc, the Spams sniaris of LirmaMi* and 

 Lucepcde, the Spams immu of Limurus, or Spams mendola of J^icepcde, 

 and the SpnniH halfara of Laccpcde and 



7 Sec Chapter 2'2 of the present Book. 



