52 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XXXII. 



purple, the meat of saltod fislj, bruised river- crabs, or flesh 

 of the silurus w (a river-fish that is found in oilier streams 

 as well as the ]Silus w ), applied either fresh or salted. The 

 ashes also of this fish, as well as the fat, have the proper4y-of_ 

 extracting pointed bodies, and the back-bone, in a calcined 

 slate, is used as a substitute for spodium. 57 



CHAP. 44. 11EMEDIKS FOR ULCK11S, CAKCIXOMATA, AND CAIi- 



UUXCLKS. 



Ulcers of a serpiginous nature, as also the fleshy excrescences 

 which make their appearance in them, are kept in check by 

 applying ashes of calcined heads of nucme, fis or else ashes of 

 the ' silunisi. 59 Carcinomata, too, are treated with heads of 

 salted perch, their eilieacy being considerably increased by 

 lining some salt along with the ashes, and kneading them up 

 with heads of cnnila 00 and olive-oil. Ashes of sea-crabs, cal- 

 cined with lead, arrest the progress of carcinomatous sores ; a 

 purpose for which ashes of river-crabs, in combination with 

 honey and line lint, are equally useful ; though there are some 

 authorities which prefer mixing alum and barley with the 

 ashes. I'hagedajnic ulcers are cured by an application of 

 dried silurus pounded with samlarach ; tl malignant cancers, 

 corrosive ulcers, and putrid sores, by the agency of stale 

 cybiuin. 6 " 



Maggots that breed in sores are removed by applying frogs' 

 gall; and fistulas are opened and dried by introducing a tent 

 made of salt iish, with a dossil of lint. Salt iish, kneaded up 

 and applied in the form of a plaster, will remove all proud 

 lie-ill in the course of a day, and will arrest the further pro- 

 gress of putrid and serpiginous ulcers. Alex, 63 applied in 

 lint, acts detergently, also, upon ulcers; the same, too, with the 

 ashes of calcined shells of sea-urchins. Salted slices of the 

 coraeinus* 1 disperse carbuncles, an effect equally produced by 

 the ashes of salted surmullets/* Some persons, however, use 



- See T>. ix. cc. 17, 25, 75. 



^ See II. ix. c. 17. Aju.sson pays that it is also found of enormous 

 feize, in the lUmube and in the Thcibsc. 



-' .Sue ]'>. xxxiv. c. 33. M Sec 13. ix. c. 42. 



w Svc Note 55 above. * " Cunila capitata." Sec B. xx. c. 05. 



'' See K xxxir. c. 55. 6i Tunny slicr-d and salted; sec U. ix. c. 18. 

 a See 15. xxxi. c. 44. " Sec B. ix. cc. 21, 32. 



" .See 13. ix. c. 30. 



