PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



remedio sunt pycnoeomi folia trita cum polenta, si 

 nondum caput fecerint. discutiunt et folia ephedri 

 inlita. 



126 LXXVIII. Fistulae quoque in omni parte serpunt 

 medicorum vitio male sectis corporibus. auxilio est 

 centaurium minus collyriis cum melle decocto additis, 

 plantaginis sucus infusus, quinquefolium cum sale et 

 melle, ladanum cum castoreo, cotyledon cum medulla 

 cervina calefacta et inposita ; verbasci radicis 

 medulla collyrii tenuitate in fistulam additur vel 

 aristolochiae radix vel sucus tithymalli. 



127 LXXIX. Collectiones inflammationesque sanant 

 argemoniae folia inHta, duritias et collectiones omnes 

 verbenaca vel quinquefolium decoctum in aceto, 

 verbasci folia vel radix, hysopum e vino inpositum, 

 acori radix decocto eius foventibus, aizoum, item 

 quae contusa sint duritiasque et in sinu ^ corporis ^ 

 illecebra. omnia infixa corpori extrahunt folia 



128 tussilaginis, daucum, semen leontopodii tritum in 

 aqua cum polenta. suppurationibus inponuntur 

 pycnocomi folia trita cum polenta vel semen, item 

 orchis. vitia quae sint in ossibus satyrii radice 

 inposita efficacissime sanari dicuntur, nomae et 



1 in sinu VdT Detlefsen : sinus E r vulg., MayJioff. 



2 corporis] Cf. § 141 sinus uJcerum. Urlichs del. corporis 

 et ulcerum scribit. 



" Literally " creep," from the shape of the fistula. Littre 

 has " se creusent." 



* The meaning of collyriis here is uncertain. It might be 

 " salves " or " suppositories," but additis, and the common 

 occurrence of rectal fistulas, suggest the latter. See too the 

 last sentence of this chapter. 



' Prof. Andrews suggests : " supplemented by suppositories 

 made with boiled honey." But cf. in fistulam additur below. 



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