Chap. 117.] 
TOKDrLON oil SYREOK. 
ri 
with mallo\Ys, extracts all foreign substances from the human 
body. 
CHAP. 115. THE EXEDUM. THE PLANT CALLED 170TIA : TWO 
HEMEDIES. 
The plant called exedum"^^ is curative of lethargy. The 
herbaceous plant called ''notia/' which is used by curriers 
for dyeing leather a bright, cheerful colour, and known by 
them under various names — is curative of cancerous ulcers ; 
I find it also stated that, taken in wine or in oxycrate, it is 
extremely efficacious for stings infiicted by scorpions. 
CHAP. 116. THE PHILANTHEOPOS : ONE PtEUfSDY. THE LAPPA 
CANAKIA : TWO liEMKDIES. 
The Greeks wittily give the name of philanthropos"^^ to a 
certain plant, because it attaches itself to articles of dress. 
A chaplet made of this plant has the effect of relieving head- 
ache. 
As to the plant known as the lappa canaria,*'^^ beaten up 
in wine with plantago and millefolium,^'* it effects the cure of 
carcinomatous sores, the application being removed at the end of 
three days. Taken out of the ground without the aid of iron, 
and thrown into their wash, or given to them in wine and milk, it 
cures diseases in swine. Some persons add, however, that the 
person, as he takes it up, must say — This is the plant arge- 
mon, a remedy discovered by Minerva for such swine as shall 
taste thereof/' 
CHAP. 117. TOEDYLON OR SYEEON : THEEE REMEDIES. 
Tordylon is, according to some authorities, the seed of sili,'^* 
while according to others it is a distinct plant,^^ known also 
as *^syreon." I find no particulars relative to it, except that 
^ Fee queries whether this may not possibly be the Ehus coriaria of 
Linnaeus, elm-leaved sumach, mentioned in B. xiii. c. 13. He would 
appear, however, to have confounded it with the Notia, next mentioned. 
^1 " Man-loving," or rather attached to man." Identified with the 
Galium aparine of Linneeus, goose-grass, or common ladies bedstraw ; the 
seeds of which attach themselves to the dress. ^2 B. xxi. c. 64. 
33 The dog-bur. The Lappa tomentosa of Lamarck. See B. xxvi. c. 65, 
3* See c. 95 of this Book. 
35 Qj. hartwort; see B. xx. cc. 18, 87. 
2s The Toriylium officinale of Linage us, ofBLcinal hart- wort. 
