BOOK XXVI. Lxxxiii. 134-LXXXV. 137 



as it stanches the flow of blood. Nymphaea also Lesions, 

 beaten up is applied to wounds from blows, and ^sjv-ahu.' 

 peucedanum with cypress seed is taken in drink if 

 blood is brought up through the mouth or flows from 

 the lower passages. Sideritis has such a powerful 

 effect that if bandaged to a gladiator's wound, how- 

 ever recent, it stops the bleeding, as does also the ash 

 or cinders of fennel-giant, though more efficacious 

 still is the fungus that grows about its root. 

 LXXXIV. For epistaxis however hemlock seed also 

 beaten up in water and inserted into the nostrils is 

 held to be efficacious, and so is stephanomehs in water. 

 Ground " betony taken in goat's milk checks haemor- 

 rhage from the breasts, as does crushed plantain. The 

 juice of the latter is given to those who vomit blood. 

 For sporadic bleeding ** however is recommended an 

 apphcation of persollata root with stale axle-grease. 



LXXXV. For ruptures, sprains, and falls from a 

 heiglit remedies are : the greater centaury, gentian 

 root beaten up or boiled down, or its juice, betony, 

 and especially when the lesion is caused by straining 

 the voice or sides, panaces, scordium, aristolochia 

 in drink, agaric also for bruises and falls, the dose 

 being two oboh taken in three cyathi of honey wine 

 or, if there is fever, in hydromel, the verbascum with 

 the golden flower, root of acoron, all the kinds of 

 aizoiim ; the most efficacious preparation however 

 being the juice '^ of the greater aizoiim, the broth 

 too of symphytum or a decoction of the root, raw 

 daucos, erysithales — the flower is yellow, the leaves 



* Hardouin saw a reference in erraticus sanguis to the effects 

 of erysipelas. It is more likely that some form of purpura is 

 meant. 



"■ For suctis and ius see note on XXIV § 146. PUny may be 

 translating dififerent Greek words {xvXos, x^fios). 



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