BOOK XXIV. xxiii. 38-xxiv. 40 j 



honey a good remedy for quinsy, catarrhs and sneez- 

 ing caused by phlegm. Mixed with rose oil it is 

 poured into the ears, and with wax it is compounded 

 into an ointment." It heals lichen and relaxes the 

 bowels ; expectoration it eases if used as an electuary 

 or applied to the tonsils in combination with honey. 

 So used it also cleanses sores and fills them out. 

 With raisins and axle-grease it cleanses carbuncles 

 and festering sores ; for creeping sores, however, it 

 is combined with pine bark or sulphur. Some 

 authorities have prescribed it in doses of one cyathus 

 for consumption and chronic cough. It cures chaps 

 in the seat, and on the feet, superficial abscesses, 

 scabrous nails, indurations and displacements of the 

 uterus, and lethargus by inhalation.*' Scrofulous 

 sores it causes to suppurate if boiled with barley meal 

 and the urine of a child not yet adolescent. Dry pitch 

 is also used for mange ; Bruttian pitch heated in wine, 

 with wheat meal, is applied to the breasts of women, 

 the applications being as hot as can be borne.'^ 



XXIV. How liquid pitch and the oil called J-mi^ /"'« 

 pisselaeon <' are made has been described ah-eady.^ 

 Some boil it down twice and call it palimpissa./ Liquid 

 pitch is employed for painting quinsy internally. It 

 is good for ear-ache, for promoting clearness of vision, 

 for use as a lip-salve, for asthmatics, the uterus, 

 chronic cough, frequent expectoration, cramp, ner- 



^ Perhaps the comma should be transferred from conver- 

 siones to odore, thus makiiig " by inhalation " apply to 

 uterine troubles. 



•^ Mayhoffs linleis means linen swabs used for the ajjpli- 

 cations. 



■^ I.e. " pitch oil." 



* See XVI. § 52. 



^ I.e. " pitch (boiled) twice." 



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