BOOK XXVI. Lviii. 89-Lix. 92 



stranorury by three-oboli doses of agaric in one 

 cyathus of old wine, by two-drachmae doses of root 

 of trefoil in wine, and by one-drnchma doses of 

 daucum or of its seed. Sciatica is cured by pounded 

 seed and leaves of erythiodanus, by panaces taken in 

 drink and rubbed on the affected part, by polemonia, 

 and by a decoction of the leaves of aristolochia. 

 Agaric indeed cures both the tendon called " broad " " 

 and pain in the shoulders, the dose being three oboh 

 taken in one cyathus of old wine. For sciatica 

 cinquefoil is both taken in drink and appHed, as is 

 also a decoction of scammony * with barley meal 

 added. The seed of either kind of hypericum is 

 taken in wine. Affections and chafings of the seat 

 are cured very quickly by plantain, condylomata by 

 cinquefoil ; if however these have already become 

 callous, by cyclamen root in vinegar. The blue 

 anagalhs pushes back prolapsus of the anus ; the red 

 anagaUis on the contrary makes it worse. Cotyledon 

 is wonderfully good treatment for condylomata and 

 for piles ; so is, for swollen testicles, the apphcation 

 of root of acoron, pounded and boiled down in 

 wine. Cato '^ says that those carrying on their persons 

 Pontic wormwood never suffer from chafing between 

 the thighs. Other authorities add pennyroyal to 

 the hst of remedies ; this, gathered by a fasting man 

 and tied behind him, prevents pains in the groin or 

 reUeves those which have begun ah*eady. 



LIX. InguinaUs (" groin-wort "), caUed by some inguinaHs. 

 argemonion, a plant growing anywhere in briar 

 patches, needs only to be held in the hand to be of 

 benefit. 



See R.R. 159. 



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