BOOK XXVI. Lxxiv. i2r-Lxxv. 122 



LXXIV. Erysipelas is treated with aizoiim, Ery.npeias. 

 pounded leaves of hemlock, and root of mandrake — 

 it is cut into slices as is cucumber, " hung first over 

 must, then in smoke, and finally pounded * — taken in 

 wine or vinegar. It is beneficial too to foment with 

 myrtle wine, or to use as an ointment two ounces of 

 mint with one ounce of native sulphur beaten up 

 together in vinegar, or soot mixed with vinegar. 

 There are several kinds of erysipelas, among them one 

 called zoster,'' which goes round the patients waist, 

 and is fatal if the circle becomes quite complete. 

 Kemedies are : plantain with Cimohan chalk, peri- 

 stereos by itself and the root of persollata ; as 

 remedies for the creeping forms can be used root of 

 cotyledon with honey wine, aizoiim, and the juice of 

 Hnozostis with vinegar. 



LXXV. Root of polypodium made up into Hniment 

 is a remedy ^ for dislocations, and the pain and swel- 

 h'ng are taken away by seed of psylhon, plantain 

 leaves beaten up with a httle salt, ground seed of ver- 

 bascum boiled in wine, and hemlock witli axle-grease. 



character to the sentence, it seems unwise to resort to 

 emendation. Mayhoff himsclf suggests that the text may 

 be tundilur, datur, " is poundecl and administered." It is 

 difficult to discriminate between tero, tundo, contero in this 

 connection, except that the first seems to denote less thorough 

 and violent pounding. " Assume that the original text had 

 secatur after radix and siccattir after fumo. Take tunditur 

 with the following phrase. There is then no difficulty in 

 translating." A. C. A. 



" " The girdle," probably shingles. The Latin erysipelas is 

 a much wider term than the English. 



''■ The reading medentur is more strongly supported than 

 medetur. Detlefsen, retaining medentur, took the words radix 

 polypodi inlita as the end of the preceding sentence (§ 121), 

 This change does not agree with Dioscorides. 



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