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taken in a dry state, or boiled down in tlie proportion of one 
handful to three heminae of vinegar. Teucria, too, is applied 
with vinegar to wounds of the spleen, or, if the patient cannot 
bear the application of vinegar, with figs or water. Polemo- 
nia is taken in wine, and betony, in doses of one drachma, 
in three cyathi of oxymel: aristolochia, too, is used in the 
same manner as for injuries inflicted by serpents. Arge- 
monia,^* it is said, taken with the food for seven consecutive 
days, diminishes the volume of the spleen ; and a similar effect 
is attributed to agaric, taken in doses of two oboli, in oxymel. 
Eoot, too, of nymph aea heraelia,^^ taken in wine, or by itself, 
diminishes the spleen. 
Cissanthemos,^^ taken twice a day, in doses of one drachma 
in two cyathi of white wine, for forty consecutive days, 
gradually carries off the spleen, it is said, by urine. Hyssop, 
boiled with figs, is very useful for the same purpose : root of 
lonchitis,^^' also, boiled before it has shed its seed. A decoction 
of root of peucedanum is good for the spleen and kidneys. 
Acoron,^^ taken in drink, diminishes the spleen ; and the roots 
of it are very beneficial for the viscera and iliac regions. Por 
similar purposes, seed of clymenus^*^ is taken, for thirty con- 
secutive days, in doses of one denarius, in white wine. Powdered 
betony is also used, taken in a potion with honey and squill 
vinegar ; root too of lonchitis is taken in water. Teucrium^^ 
is used externally for diseases of the spleen ; scordium,^ also, 
in combination with wax ; and agaric, mixed with powdered 
fenugreek. 
CHAP. 49. EEMEDIES FOE CALCULI AND DISEASES OF THE BLADDEE. 
For diseases of the bladder and calculi (aflections which, as 
already observed,^^ produce the most excruciating torments), 
polemonia is highly efScacious, taken in wine ; agaric also, 
and leaves or root of plantago, taken in raisin wine. Betony, 
J2 See B. XXV. c. 28. gge B. xxv. c. 55. 
14 See B. xxv. c. 56. is See B. xxv. C; 37. 
16 See B. xxv. c. 68. 
See B. xxv. c. 88. Fee says that it is the Aspidium lonchitis of Lin- 
niBUs, that is meant. i^ See B. xxv. c. 70. 
19 See B. xxv. c. 100. 20 See B. xxv. c. 33. 
21 See B. xxv. c. 20. 
22 Or Scordotis. See B. xxv. c. 27> 
23 In B. xxv. c. 7. 24 See B. xxv. c. 28. 
