BOOK XXVI. Lxxxvii. 147-LXXXIX. 150 



good for any kind of sore, and root of astragalus, 

 beaten to powder, for ulcers that are running, and so 

 is callithrix boiled down in water ; specific however 

 for sores caused by footwear is vervain, crushed 

 lysimachia also, and dried nymphaea reduced to 

 powder. But when these last have become chi'onic 

 polvthi-ix proves more useful. 



LXXXVIII. Pol^xnemon is like ox cunila, and its 

 seed resembles that of pennyroyal ; it has a wood- 

 Uke stem wth many joints, and its clusters are scented, 

 with a pungent but sweet smell. When chewed it is 

 apphed to cuts made by iron, but is taken off on the 

 fifth day. Symphyton very quickly causes a scar to 

 form, as also does sideritis, which is appUed with 

 honey. The seed and leaves of verbascum, boiled 

 down in wine and beaten up, bring away everything 

 embedded in the flesh, as do mandrake leaves with 

 pearl barley, or cyclamen roots with honey. Trixago 

 leaves crushed in oil are appUed especially to spread- 

 ing ulcers, as is also sea-weed beaten up in honey ; 

 betony, with the addition of salt, is used for carci- 

 noma and chronic pustules " on the neck. 



LXXXIX. Warts are removed by argemonia in warts. 

 vinegar, by root of batrachium, which also brings 

 away scabrous nails, and by an appUcation of the 

 leaves or juice of either kind of Unozostis. All kinds 

 of tithymalUis remove all kinds of warts, hangnails, 

 and pimples ** on the face. Ladanum smooths away 

 scars and restores the colour. A traveller who has 

 artemisia and '^ eleUsphacus tied on him does not, 

 they say, feel any fatigue. 



* Or, " eruptions." 



' Is et here equivalent to " or " ? The pkiral (alligatas) 

 seems against this. 



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