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diuretic, aids the menses and the after-birth, and 

 restores bruises to their natural colour if they are 

 fomented with a decoction of the seed. Applied 

 with white of egg, or boiled in water and drunk, 

 parsley cures kidney troubles, and ulcers in the 

 mouth when pounded up in cold water. The seed 

 with wine, or the root with old wine, breaks up stones 

 in the bladder. The seed is also given, in white 

 wine, to jaundice patients. 



XLV. Hyginus gives the name of apiastrum to ApiasiTam. 

 melissophyllum, but by general consent the Sar- 

 dinian variety is condemned as poisonous ; I must 

 however incUide in the same class all plants so placed 

 by Greek writers. 



XLVI. Olusatrum (alexanders), also called hippo- Aiexanders. 

 seHnum (horse parsley), is antipathetic to scorpions. 

 Its seed taken in drink cures colic and intestinal 

 worms. The seed too, boiled and drunk in honey 

 wine, cures dysuria. Its root, boiled in wine, ex- 

 pels stone, besides curing lumbago and pains in the 

 side. Taken in drink and applied as liniment it 

 cures the bite of a mad dog. A draught of its juices 

 warms those who have been chilled. A fourth kind 

 of parsley is made by some authorities out of oreo- 

 selinum (mountain parsley), a straight shrub a palm Mmntani 

 high, with a seed like cummin, beneficial to the urine ?""% 

 and the menses. HeleoseHnum (wild celery) is wudceiery. 

 especially valuable for the bites of spiders ; this variety 

 and oreoselinum taken in wine promotes the menses. 



XLVTI. Another kind of parsley, which grows on Rockparsiey. 

 rocks, is called by some petroselinum (rock parsley) ; 

 it is especially good for abscesses, two spoonfuls of 

 the juice making a dose with one cyathus of juice 

 of horehound and three cyathi of warm water. 



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