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statue, gathered in the lappet of any one of the garments, and 
then attached with a red string to the neck, is an instantaneous 
cure for head- ache. 
CHAP. 107. A PLANT GKOWING ON THE BANKS OF A ErV^)K : 
ONE KEMEDr. 
Anj plant that is gathered before sunrise on the banks of a 
stream or river, due care being taken that no one sees it 
gathered, attached to the left arm without the patient knowing 
what it is, will cure a tertian fever, they say. 
CHAP. 108. THE HEEB CALLED LINGUA: ONE EBMEDY. 
There is a herb called " lingua,""^ which grows in the 
vicinity of fountains. The root of it, reduced to ashes and 
beaten up with hog*s lard — the hog, they say, must have been 
black and barren — will cure alopecy, the head being rubbed 
with it in the sun. 
CHAP. 109. PLANTS THAT TAKE EOOT IN A SIEVE I ONE 
EEMEDY. 
Plants that take root in a sieve that has' been thrown in 
a hedge-row, if gathered and worn upon the person by a preg- 
nant woman, will facilitate delivery. 
CHAP. 110. PLANTS GROWING UPON DUNGHILLS I ONE EEMEDY. 
A plant that has been grown upon a dungheap in a field, is 
a very efficacious remedy, taken in water, for quinzy. 
CHAP. 111. PLANTS THAT HAVE BEEN MOISTENED WITH THE 
UEINE OF A DOG : ONE EBMEDY. 
A plant upon which a dog has watered, torn up by the roots, 
and not touched with iron, is a very speedy cure for sprains. 
CHAP. 112. THE EODAEUM: THEEE EEMEDIES. 
We have already^^ made mention of the rumpotinus, when 
speaking of the vine-growing^^ trees. iN'ear the tree, when not 
of a statue. Numerous mosses grow upon marble ; and statues are 
gradually covered, Fee says, with the Byssus antiquitatis. 
23 " Tongue " plant. Fee identifies it with the Scolopendrium oflB.cinarum 
of Willdenow, the Lingua cervina of other botanists. See B. xxv. c. 84. 
2^ In B, xiv. c. 3. ^5 Qj- u vine-supporting." 
