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of the intestines, and that the seed is beneficial for affections 
of the joints and chest. Boiled with mallows and then taken 
in honied wine, fenugreek is extolled in the highest terms, as 
serviceable for affections of the uterus and intestines. Indeed, 
the very steam that arises from the decoction may be produc- 
tive of considerable benefit. A decoction too of fenugreek seed 
is a corrective of the rank odours of the armpits. Meal of 
fenugreek, with wine and nitre, speedily removes ring- worm 
and dandriff of the head ; and a decoction of it in hydromel, 
with the addition of axle-grease, is used for the cure of diseases 
of the generative organs, inflamed tumours, imposthumes of 
the parotid glands, gout in the feet and hands, maladies of 
the joints, and denudations of the bones. Kneaded with 
vinegar, it effects the cure of sprains, and, boiled in oxymel 
only, it is used as a liniment for affections of the spleen. 
Kneaded with wine, it acts as a detergent upon carcinomatous 
sores ; after whichj applied with honey, it effects a perfect cure. 
A pottage too is made of this meal, which is taken for ulcera- 
tions of the chest and chronic coughs ; it is kept boiling a con- 
siderable time, in order to remove the bitterness,^^ after which 
honey is added. 
We shall now proceed to speak of the plants which have 
gained a higher degree of reputation. 
Stjmmaey. — Eemedies, narratives, and observations, eleven 
hundred and seventy-six. 
EoMAiJ- ATJTHOES QUOTED. — C. Yalgius,^^ Pompeius Lenseus,^ 
Sextius Mger^^ who wrote in Greek, Julius Bassus^^ who 
WTote in Greek, Antonius Castor, Cornelius Celsus.^® 
FoEEiGN ATJTHOES QUOTED. — Thcophrastus,^^ Apoliodorus,®^^ 
Democritus,^^ Orpheus,^'^ Pythagoras, Mago,^^ Menan- 
Fee remarks, that in reality there is no bitterness in fenugreek. He 
suggests therefore, that the meaning maybe " offensive smell," that emitted 
by fenugreek being far from agreeable. 
53 See end of B. xx. See end of B. xiv. 
55 See end of B. xii. gee end of E. xx. 
5T See end of B. xx, 58 gee end of B. vii. 
59 See end of B. iii. eo gee end of B. xi. 
61 See end of B. ii. 62 gee end of B. xx. 
^ See end of B. ii. gee end of B. viiL 
