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which is also called alisma," is gathered at the solstice 

 and appHed in rainwater to the sores, the leaf being 

 crushed, or the root pounded, with axle-grease, but 

 the appUcation must be covered with a leaf ** from 

 the same plant. The same method is used for all 

 pains in the neck and for tumours in any part of 

 the body. 



XIII. The daisy grows in meadows. It has a Daisy. 

 white flower, to a certain distance tinged with red. 



It is held that an appUcation of it is more efficacious 

 if artemisia is added. 



XIV. Condurdum too is a plant blooming at the Condurdun 

 summer solstice, having a red flower. Hung round 



the neck it is said to arrest scrofula ; the same is said 

 of vervain with plantain. AU complaints of the 

 fingers and specifically whitlows are successfully 

 treated ^\ith cinquefoil. 



XV. Of chest complaints quite the most distressing coughs. 

 is cough. Remedies for it are : root of panaces taken 



in sweet wine, juice of henbane (even when there is 

 spitting of blood ; the fumes too of burning henbane 

 help the cough), scordotis also mixed with cress and 

 dry resin pounded with honey — even by itself it 

 makes expectoration easy — the greater centaur}^ too, 

 even when there is spitting of blood, for which com- 

 plaint the juice of the plantain also is a remedy, 

 three oboU of betony in water for spitting of pus or 

 blood, root of persoUata in doses of one drachma 

 with eleven pine seeds, juice of peucedanum, For 

 pains in the chest acorum is a help, and for this 

 reason it is a component of antidotes," a help too for 



poisons in order to relieve chest pains. Mayhoff saw the 

 difficulty and conjectured idem for ideo ; this, however, 

 makes the parenthesis pointless. 



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