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its efficacy as a cure, is held in preference. It is found grow- 
ing among rocks, and has a single broad leaf near the root, 
and a single long stem, with small leaves hanging from it. 
This plant has the property also of effacing brand marks, 
being beaten up with honej for that purpose. There is another 
kind^^ of lichen also, which adheres entirely to rocks, like 
moss, and which is equally used as a topical application. The 
juice of it, dropt into wounds, or applied to abscesses, has the 
property of arresting haemorrhage : mixed with honey, it is 
curative of jaundice, the face and tongue being rubbed with 
it. Under this mode of treatment, the patient is recommended 
to wash in salt water, to anoint himself with oil of almonds, 
and to abstain from garden vegetables. For the cure of 
lichen, root of thapsia** is also used, bruised in honey. 
CHAP. 11. — aunffZY. 
For the treatment of quinzy, we find argemonia^* recom- 
mended, in wine; a decoction of hyssop, boiled with figs, 
used as a gargle ; peucedanum,^^ with an equal proportion of 
sea-calf's rennet ; proserpinaca,^^ beaten up in the pickle of the 
maena*' and oil, or else placed beneath the tongue; as also 
juice of cinquefoil, taken in doses of three cyathi. Used as a 
gargle, juice of cinquefoil is good for the cure of all affections 
of the fauces : verbascum,*^ too, taken in wine, is particularly 
useful for diseases of the tonsillary glands. 
CHAP. 12. (5.) — SCROEULA. 
For the cure of scrofula plantago is employed, chelidonia^^ 
mixed with honey and axle-grease, cinquefoil, and root of per- 
*2 Identified by Fee with the Marchantia polymorpha of Linnaeus, Com- 
mon Marchantia, or Fountain Uverwort, the male plant. 
Identified by Fee with the Marchantia stellata, Star-headed Mar- 
chantia, or Female fountain liverwort. Desfontaines takes it to be either 
the Marchantia conica, or the Peltidea canina. It must be remembered 
that the Marchantia is not a Lichen in the modern acceptation of the word, 
and that our Lichens are destitute of stem. Littre identifies it with the 
Lecanora parella. 
See B. xiii. c. 43. gee B. xxv. c. 66. 
*6 See B. xxv. c. 70. ^"^ See B. xxvii. c. 104. 
^ See B. ix. c. 42. gee B. xxv. c. 73. 
^ Fee remarks that none of the plants here mentioned are of any utility 
for the cure of scrofula, See B. xxv. c. 60. 
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