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PLINY S NATURAL HISTOKY. 
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beverage. Taken with honey, it is a sovereign remedy for 
cough ; and it is used for hardness of breathing, in doses of a 
spoonful. Applied with polenta and vinegar to the parts 
affected, it removes leprous sores. Used with panax and root 
of the caper-plant, it breaks and expels calculi, and a decoction 
of it in wine with barley-meal disperses inflamed tumours. It 
is used as an ingredient in emollient plasters and eye-salves 
for the sight, and is found to be one of the most useful sternu- 
tories known ; it is good too for the liver and the spleen. Taken 
in hydrorael, in doses of one denarius, it effects the cure of 
asthma, as also of pleurisy and all pains in the sides. 
The apocynum^*^ is a shrub with leaves like those of ivy, but 
softer, and not so long in the stalk, and the seed of it is 
pointed and downy, with a division running down it, and a 
very powerful smell. Given in their food with water, the seed 
is poisonous^^ to dogs and all other quadrupeds. 
CHAP. 59. ROSEMARY : EIGHTEEN REMEDIES. 
There are two kinds of rosemary ; one of which is barren, 
and the other has a stem with a resinous seed, known as 
*^cachrys." The leaves have the odour of frankincense.^-* 
The root, applied fresh, effects the cure of wounds, prolapsus 
of the rectum, condylomata, and piles. The juice of the 
plant, as well as of the root, is curative of jaundice, and sucli 
diseases as require detergents ; it is useful also for the sight. 
The seed is given in drink for inveterate diseases of the chest, 
and, with wine and pepper, for affections of the uterus ; it 
acts also as an emmenagogue, and is used with meal of darnel 
as a liniment for gout. It acts also as a detergent upon 
freckles, and is used as an application in diseases which 
require calorifics or sudorifics, and for convulsions. The plant 
itself, or else the root, taken in wine, increases the milk, and 
the leaves and stem of the plant are applied with vinegar 
to scrofulous sores ; used with honey, they are very useful for 
cough. 
33 <' Aureum poculum." 
Desfontaines says that it is the Periploca angustifolia ; Fee gives the 
Apocynum folio subrotimdo of C. Bauhin, round leafed dogsbane. 
This is the fact ; and hence one of its names " cynanche," or " dog- 
strangle." 
This, Fee says, is the fact. The plant is rich in essential oil, and is 
consequently a powerful excitant. See B. xix. c. 62. 
