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manner for a similar purpose. A decoction of root of helle- 
bore in oil or in water is used for the removal of porrigo. For 
the cure of head-ache, root of all kinds of panaces^^ is used, 
beaten up in oil ; as also aristolochia^^ and iberis,^^ this last being 
applied to the head for an hour or more, if the patient can 
bear it so long, care being taken to bathe in the meanwhile. 
The daucus, too, is curative of head-ache. Cyclaminos,'^^ intro- 
duced into the nostrils with honey, clears the head ; used in 
the form of a liniment, it heals ulcers of the head. Periste- 
reos,''^* also, is curative of diseases of the head. 
CHAP. 85. THE CACALIA OE LEONTICE I THREE EEMEDIES. 
The name of cacalia"^^ or leontice" is given to a plant 
with seed resembling small pearls in appearance, and hang- 
ing down between large leaves: it is mostly found upon 
mountains. Fifteen grains of this seed are macerated in oil, 
and the head is rubbed with the mixture, the contrary way to 
the hair. 
CHAP. 86. THE CALLITRICHOS 1 ONE REMEDY. 
A sternutatory, too, is prepared from the callitrichos.^^ The 
leaves of this plant are similar to those of the lentil, and the 
stems resemble fine rushes ; the root is very diminutive. It 
grows in shady, moist localities, and has a burning taste in the 
mouth. 
CHAP. 87. HYSSOP : TEN REMEDIES. 
Hyssop,-^ beaten up in oil, is curative of phthiriasis and 
•^« See c. 11 of this Book. 
21 See c. 54 of this Book. 22 gee c. 49 of this Book. 
23 See c. 67 of this Book. 24 Qr Vervain. 
25 Sprengel identified this plant at first with the Buplevrum longifolium 
of Linnaeus, the Long-leaved hare's ear, but at a later period with the 
Mercurialis tomentosa, the Woolly mercury. Fee suggests the Cacalia 
petasites or albifrons, though with diffidence. Xittre gives the Cacalia ver- 
Dascifolia of Sibthorp. 
2^ See c. 83 of this Book ; also B. xxii. c. 30, and B. xxTii. c. 111. 
2*^ There has been much discussion on the identification of the Hyssopum 
of the ancients, their descriptions varying very considerably. It has been 
suggested that that of the Egyptians was the Origanum -ffigj^tianum ; that 
of the Hebrews, the Origanum Syriacum ; that of Dioscorides, the Origa- 
num Smyrnaeum; and that of the other Greek writers, the Teucrium pseudo- 
hyssopus, or else the Thymbra verticHlata and spicata. Fee is inclined to 
identify that here mentioned by Pliny with the Thymbra spicata of Lin. 
naeus, and the Garden hyssop of Dioscorides, with the Hyssopus officinalis 
