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juice of Caprifolium ;’* or “‘use a t“yriaca repressiva, a decoction 
of rue in wine; or rub on dried figs with ground hazelnuts; or 
take balsam in a mother's milk; but take quickly,—/periculum est 
zn mora. Or use the antidote of onions { called Tyriaca rusticorum, 
the countryman’s poison-cure ; indeed without an onion in it, it is 
said it will still avail if hen’s lard be put in it; for so it is said 
according to Constantinus in his Lzber de simplici medicina.”’ + 
Viper-bites, he would cure, not with aster, but with a 
““Tyriaca”’ of ‘“‘Genciana”’ in wine or ‘‘ with rue, mint or onions, 
well-salted”’; so says Constantinus, who would use as well a com- 
pound of hen’s brain and pomegranate leaves.{ His ‘‘Draguncia”’ 
or Arum is particularly efficacious ; ‘from its odor serpents flee.” 
(Book 17.) 
Ulcers and tumors, as the s¢ruma and apostema which we have 
seen treated with aster poultices by Greece and Rome, are by 
Bartholomaeus treated with “‘ Tyriaca cum vino’’§ taken, like the 
chief part of his medical chapters, from Constantinus Africanus. 
So he prescribes it for the tumor which he calls ‘“‘ xoli me tangere,” 
and for his cancer, which he remarks is “ vero magis.”’ 
Sciatica, for which Pliny recommended the aster, Bartholo- 
maeus cures { with ga/banum,§ also recommended by Pliny for the 
same.** 
* So in his liber xvii, de Allio, ‘« Allium is s powerful against all venoms, 50 that 
not without cause itis named a4 anféi; guts doctoribus, Salar Peeing ut dicit dyas. 
Maxime —s valet contra morsum et v mc abidi 
i Bartholomaeus also praises for poisonous bites he efficacia and virtus of “ cala- 
m”’ pees caulis (the cabbage), orobus seeds, ‘ nasturcium,’’ ‘* porrum,”’ — 
‘cle? ”” walnuts cooked up with rue, the root of ‘ —— ’? (asparagus), “‘ genciana,” 
“‘menta diptanum et multa alia infinita,’’ adding ‘‘ Enim multa sunt venenosorum pe 
naar 3 ideo divina bonitas multa super addit anit (sic} et remedia’’; fol. 63. 
: te icit e Const., ... de frondibus malorum- -granatormngie ; 5 fol, 64. 
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ae deliveries, and for sciatica, ruptures, ulcers and inflamed tumors; its odor 1§ 
of these properties was ascribed to Ast se ahi by one or more of the Greeks or wate 
That Galbanum is still in use as an colicin to ulcerated sores is noted by Fee. 
