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The leaves of ephemeron are applied in the form of 

 Hniment to tumours and swelHngs that are still able 

 to be dispersed. 



LXXVI. The most striking symptom of jaundice Jawuiice 

 is the efFect upon the eyes ; the bile penetrates 

 even betv^^een the membranes, thin and close to- 

 gether as they are. Hippocrates " says that if 

 jaundice supervenes from the seventh day of a fever 

 it is a fatal symptom. I however know of recoveries 

 even from this desperate condition. But cases of 

 jaundice occur without fever, and can be overcome by 

 the greater centaury, taken in drink as I have pre- 

 scribed,* by betony, by three-oboli doses of agai-ic in 

 a cyathus of old -wine, and by three-oboU doses of 

 vervain leaves taken for four days in a hemina of 

 warmed wine. The quickest remedy however is 

 juice of cinquefoil taken in doses of three cyathi with 

 salt and honey.'' Three-drachmae doses of i'oot of 

 cyclamen are taken in drink while the patient is in a 

 warm place protected from chilly draughts — the 

 medicine induces sweats full of gall — , and good is 

 done by leaves of tussilago in water, by seed of Hno- 

 zostis of either kind sprinkled in drink or boiled 

 down with wormwood or chick peas, by hyssop 

 berries taken \vith water, by the herb Hchen, the 

 patient during the treatment abstaining from all 

 other vegetables, by polythrix administered in wine, 

 and by struthion in honey mne. 



LXXVII. A common'' complaint, affecting any Boils. 

 part of the body, but especially an inconvenient part, 

 is what are called boils, sometimes a fatal mal- 

 ady after surgical operations.« Pounded leaves of 



' Confectis : " when the body is run down." 



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