Chap. 62.] 
SELAGO* 
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CHAP. 60. THE SEED CALLED CACHETS. 
As already^^ stated, there are several kinds of cachrys 
but that which is produced by rosemary above-mentioned, 
when rubbed, is found to be of a resinous nature. It neu- 
tralizes poisons and the venom of animals, that of serpents 
excepted. It acts also as a sudorific, dispels griping pains in 
the bowels, and increases the milk in nursing women. 
CHAP. 61. THE HEKB SAVIN : SEVEIST EEMEDIES. 
Of the herb savin, known as brathy" by the Greeks,^^ there 
are two varieties, one of them^® with a leaf like that of the 
tamarix, the other*^ with that of the cypress ; for which reason 
some persons have called this last the Cretan cypress. It is 
used by many for fumigations, as a substitute for frankin- 
cense;^® employed in medicine, it is said to have the same effect 
as cinnamon, if taken in doses twice as large. It reduces 
gatherings, disperses corrosive sores, acts as a detergent upon 
ulcers, and, used as a pessary and as a fumigation, brings away 
the dead foetus.*^ It is employed as a topical application for 
erysipelas and carbuncles, and, taken with honey in wine, is 
curative of jaundice. 
The smoke of this plant, they say, cures the pip in all kinds 
of poultry.^ 
CHAP. 62. — SELAGO : TWO REMEDIES. 
Similar to savin is the herb known as selago."" Care is 
43 In B. xvi. c. 11. 
44 A gall or fungoid production, or, in some instances, a catkin. Fee 
says that Pliny has committed an error here in attributing a cachrys to 
rosemary, the Libanotis stephanomaticos, which, in reality, belongs to 
the Libanotis canchryphorus or Libanotis prima. 
So called from the Greek ppadv, slow/* according to some au- 
thorities; by reason of the slowness of its growth. 
*6 Identified by Fee with the Sabina vulgatior of Lobelius, or Juniperus 
Sabina, variety /3, of Lamarck. 
4' The Sabina baceifera of J. Bauhin, the male savin, the type of the 
plant. 
See Ovid's Fasti, B.i. 1. 341, as to this custom, and Virgil's " Culex," 
1. 403, 
*9 It is still a common notion, though Fee says an ill-founded one, that 
it poduces abortion. Indeed we find Galen stating to the same elfect. 
Fee ridicules this notion with considerable zest. 
The liycopodium selago of Linnaeus, upright club-moss, or fir -moss, 
