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tions and for fatigue, boiling it in oil after adding 

 soda. He guaranteed travellers less fatigue if they 

 took anise seed in drink. For flatulence of the 

 stomach Heraclides gave in honey-wine a three- 

 finger pinch of the seed with two oboH of beaver oil, 

 and in like manner for flatulence in the belly or 

 intestines and for orthopnoea" a three-finger pinch of 

 the seed, the same quantity of henbane, and asses' 

 milk added. Many advise that those intending to 

 take an emetic should during the dinner take in 

 water ^ acetabula of anise and ten pounded bay 

 leaves. It reheves suffbcation of the womb, if it be 

 chewed and applied warm, or if it be taken with 

 beaver-oil in oxymel. A dose of a three-finger 

 pinch of cucumber seed and of the same quantity of 

 linseed, in three cvathi of white wine, dispels vertigo 

 after child-birth. For quartan agues Tlepolemus used 

 a three-finger pinch of the seed of anise and fennel, 

 taken in vinegar and one cyathus of honey. AppHed 

 with bitter almonds it reheves diseases of the joints. 

 There are some who beUeve that its nature neutra- 

 lizes the poison of asps. Diuretic, it quenches 

 thirst, is an aphrodisiac, promotes with wine a gentle 

 perspiration, and also protects clothes from moths. 

 It is more efiicacious always when fresh and the 

 darker it is, yet it injures the stomach except when 

 there is flatulence. 



LXXIV. Dill too causes belching and relieves dui. 

 griping ; it arrests diarrhoea. Its roots in water or 

 wine are applied for fluxes from the eyes. To smell 

 its seed when boiling checks hiccoughs. Taken in 

 water it reHeves indigestion. Its ash reHeves an 

 inflamed uvula, but weakens the eyes and the powers 

 of generation. 



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