42 Aster HIstTory 
[Heals] botches, imposthumes and venereous buboes.— 
Salmon, 1682. 
See also Quincey’s Dispensatory, Lon. 1721; and see infra, 
under Aubonion, etc. : 
The herb and root of Aster Atticus were formerly employed 
in inflammatory buboes.—Foster, Encyclopaedic Medical Dic- 
tionary, 1890. Winkler, Real Lexicon, etc. 
It was the purple or blue part of the flower that was 
esteemed as possessing the curative power in healing buboes. Did 
this aid in developing that superstitious preference for blue of 
which Dr. Millengen in 1837 wrote “To this day, flannel dyed 
nine times blue is supposed to be more efficacious in glandular 
swellings !’ (Curiosities of Medical Experience, 2: 140. Lon. 
1837.) 
Related plants credited with similar powers, include “ Jnula 
viscosa,” xovuta peyddy of Dioscorides, which was formerly applied 
extensively to tumors. Some species of Inula are still applied to 
buboes, carbuncles, and sore eyes, and are used as stomachic.— 
Foster, 1890. 
‘‘Conyza squarrosa, once the herba conyza vulgaris of the 
shops,” like its relative Aster Atticus, was recommended as an 
application to tumors by the Greeks [D., Euporista, 167, edn. 
Kuhn] and was thought to drive away fleas [hence called flea- 
bane ].—Foster, 1890. The same reputation carried over, caused 
the development of the name Pulicaria, made a species of Inula by 
Linnaeus, later the type of the genus Pulicaria. 
Dioscorides’ [genuine ?] Euporista recommends Buphthalmum 
flowers for steatoma, a sebaceous tumor, bk. 1, c. 157; Conyza 
and Leucanthemum, bk. 2, c. 69, for uterine inflammation ; 
Anthemis for inflammations in the pudenda ; Leontopodium, bk. 1, 
c. 166, for similar ulcers and for wounds, as also Conysa folta, 
bk. 1, ¢. 167, for which the last, the fleabane, held a reputation of 
long standing (first mentioned by Hecataeus Abderita, who fol- 
lowed Alexander into Syria 332 B.C.; also by Theophrastus, 
Theocritus and Nicolaus Damascenus), 
For Wounds and Inflammatory Sores.—Closely akin to the pre- 
ceding efficacy and attributed to Aster or related plants. 
“Sores or ulcers resulting from dislocations are to be cured by 
