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too, is very good, as already observed, when speaking of 
diseases of the liver. This last plant is used also for hernia, 
applied topically or taken in drink : it is remarkably efficacious 
too for strangury. Eor calculi some persons recommend 
betony, vervain, and milfoil, in equal proportions in water, as 
a sovereign remedy. It is universally agreed that dittany is 
curative of strangury, and that the same is the case with 
cinquefoil, boiled down to one third in wine : this last plant is 
very useful, too, taken internally and applied topically, for 
rupture of the groin. 
The upper part of the root of xiphion"^ has a diuretic effect 
upon infants ; it is administered also in water for rupture of 
the groin, and is applied topically for diseases of the bladder. 
Juice of peucedanum^' is employed for hernia in infants, and 
psyllion^^ is used as an application in cases of umbilical 
hernia. The two kinds of anagallis^^ are diuretic, and a 
similar effect is produced by a decoction of root of acoron,^^ or 
the plant itself bruised and taken in drink ; this last is 
good too for all affections of the bladder. Both the stem and 
root of cotyledon^^ are used for the cure of calculi ; and for all 
inflammations of the genitals, myrrh is mixed in equal propor- 
tions with the stem and seed. The more tender leaves of 
ebulum,^'-^ beaten up and taken with wine, expel calculi of the 
bladder, and an application of them is curative of diseases of 
the testes. Erigeron,^''^ with powdered frankincense and sweet 
wine, is curative of inflammation of the testes ; and root of 
symphytum,^^ applied topically, reduces rupture of the groin. 
The white hypocisthis^^ is curative of corroding ulcers of the 
genitals. Artemisia^^ is prescribed also in sweet wine for the 
cure of calculi and of strangury; and root of nymphsea heraclia,^"^ 
taken in wine, allays pains in the bladder. 
CHAP. 50. CEETHMOS: ELEVEN EEMEDIES. CACHIIT. 
A similar property belongs also to crethmos,^^ a plant highly 
25 See c. 19 of this Book. 26 gge B. xxv. cc. 88, 89. 
See B. xxv. c. 70. 28 gge B. xxv. c. 90. 
29 See B. xxv. c. 92. so gee B. xxv. c. 100. 
It is quite useless for such a purpose ; and the same is the case, Fee 
says, with all the asserted remedies mentioned in this Chapter. See B. 
xxv. e. 101. 32 See B. xxv. c. 71. 
33 See B. xxv. c. 106. 34 gge B. xxvii. c. 24. 
See c. 31 of this Book. 36 gge B. xxv. c. 36. 
See B. xxv. c. 37. 3s gee B. xxv. c. 96. 
