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tereos is good for all kinds of ulcers, even when hard 

 and festering. Running ulcers are cured by root of 

 nymphaea heracHa, also by the root of cyclamen, by 

 itself, in vinegar, or with lioney. This last is also excel- 

 lent for fatty tumours, as is hyssop for running ulcers, 

 and peucedanum also, which when used for fresh 

 wounds is so powerful as to exfoHate bones. The two 

 kinds of anagalhs also have this property, and check 

 fluxes and the sores called nomae, being useful for fresh 

 wounds, but especially for those on the flesh of the 

 aged. Abscesses and foul ulcei*s ■(may be treated 

 with) fresh leaves of mandrake and wax-salve, 

 wounds with its root and honey or oil, or with 

 hemlock added to wheat and neat wine. For 

 herpes also, nomae and festeving ulcers," aizoiim 

 may be used, as may erigeron for verminous sores, for 

 fresh wounds root of astragalus, and for chronic ulcers 

 either kind of hypocisthis, which cleanses them. 

 The seed of leontopodium, beaten up in water and 

 appHed \vith pearl barley, extracts the heads of 

 arrows, as does also the seed of pycnocomon. The 

 juice of tithymallus characites heals gangrenes, 

 phagedaenic sores and purulent ulcers, as does a 

 decoction of the branches with pearl barley and oil ; 

 the roots of orchis moreover with honey cure even 

 maHgnant sores, heahng wounds without further 

 addition, and whether dry or freshly gathered. 

 Onothera heals ulcers that are becoming virulent. 

 The Scythians treat wounds ^* with scythice. For 

 carcinoma argemonia appHed vvith honey is very 

 efficacious. For ulcers prematurely healed root of 

 asphodel, boiled down as I have said,*" beaten up with 

 pearl barley and appHed, is good ; but apolHnaris is 

 ' See XXIT § 70. 



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