Chap. 4G.] KI:MEDII:S ron FEMALE DISEASES. 5'* 



tlie head only of the surmullet, in combination with honey 

 or with the llesh of the eoru<:inus. Ashes of the murex, ap- 

 plied with oil, disperse tumours, and the gall of the sea-scor- 

 pioii makes scars disappear. 



CHAP. 4,3. - IIKMKDIKS FOR WAUTS, AND FOR MALFORMED NAILS. 



mi: GLANIS: ONI: KKMEHY. 



To remove warts, the liver of the glanib 68 is applied to the 

 part ; ashes also of heads of nuvna)'' 7 bruised with garlic 

 substances which should be used raw where it is thyme- 

 w arts'* that require to be removed the gall of the red sea- 

 scorpion,'** smarides^ pounded and applied, or alcx 7 " thoroughly 

 boiled. Ashes of calcined heads of imeiiar 1 arc used to rectify 

 malformed nails. 



CHAT. 40. - UKMEDIKS FOIL F KM ALE I>ISl!ASES. THE GLAUCISCTs : 



ONE KKMEDY. 



The milk is increased in females by eating the glaucisciis 72 

 in its own liquor, or else smarid'es 7 ' 4 with a ptisan, or boiled 

 with fennel. Ashes of calcined shells of the murex or purple, 

 applied with honey, are an effectual cure 1'or affections of the 

 mamillaj ; river-crabs, too, and sea-crabs, applied topically, are 

 equally good. The meat of the muivx, applied to the mamilkv, 

 removes hairs 7 * growing upon those parts. The squatina, 75 ap- 

 plied topically, prevents the main il he i'rom becoming too dis- 

 tended. Lint greased with dolphin V fat, and then ignited, 

 produces a smoke which acts as an excitant upon females 

 suffering from hysterical suffocations ; the same, too, with 

 strombi, 77 left to putrefy in vinegar. Heads of perch or of 



M See B. ix. c. 07. 6: Sec Note 58 above. 6S "Thymia." 



f> * - Ajasson thinks that the ancients knew but one kind of sta-scorpioc, 

 but in different statrs, the Coitus scor.pius, probably, of Linmeus. 



C<J See Chapter :>1 of this Hook. - u JSec Note G3 above. 



71 Sec Is oto 68 above. ; 



" 3 This iish has not been identified. It is possible, however, that it 

 may be tbo anm as the "glaucus" mentioned in 15 ix. e. "25. 



"* J See Note 00 above. ;i See U. xxvi. e. 02. 



75 Sec H. ix. cc. 14,40, G7. 



78 All asserted remedy, founded, as Ajasson remarks, upon nothing but 

 a 'pun, the resemblance between 3t\$~n.\ a u dolphin,'* aud ttA^i-g, the 

 "womb." 



77 See Chapters 29 and 30 of this I5ook. 



