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of cinqnefoil are taken, also, in water. Archezostis'^ is also 
curative of epilepsy, but it must be taken constantly for a 
year ; root of bacchar,*^^ too, dried and powdered, and taken in 
warm water, in the proportion of three cyathi to one cyathus 
of coriander; centunculus"^^ also, bruised in vinegar, warm 
water, or honey ; vervain, taken in wine ; hyssop"^^ berries, 
three in number, pounded and taken in water, for sixteen days 
consecutively; peucedanum,'''^ taken in drink with sea-calf's 
rennet, in equal proportions ; leaves of cinquefoil, bruised in 
wine and taken for thirty days ; powdered betony, in doses of 
three denarii, with one cyathus of squill vinegar and an ounce 
of Attic honey ; as also scammony, in the proportion of two 
oboli to four drachmse of castoreum. 
CHAP. 71. REMEDIES FOR FEVERS. 
Agaric, taken in warm water, alleviates cold fevers : sideritis, 
in combination with oil, is good for tertian fevers ; bruised 
ladanum "^"^ also, which is found in com fields ; plantago,''^^ taken 
in doses of two drachmse, in hydromel, a couple of hours before 
the paroxysms come on ; juice of the root of plantago made 
warm or subjected to pressure ; or else the root itself beaten up 
in water made warm with a hot iron. Some medical men pre- 
scribe three roots of plantago, in three cyathi of water ; and 
in a similar manner, four roots for quartan fevers. When 
buglossos'^ is beginning to wither, if a person takes the pith out 
of the stem, and says while so doing, that it is for the cure 
of such and such a person suffering from fever, and then 
attaches seven leaves to the patient, just before the paroxysms 
come on, he will experience a cure, they say. 
Fevers too, those which are attended with recurrent cold 
shiverings more particularly, are cured by administering one 
drachma of betony, or else agaric, in three cyathi of hydromel. 
Some medical men recommend three leaves of cinquefoil for 
tertian, four for quartan, and an increased number for oth^r 
fevers ; while others again prescribe in all cases three oboli of 
cinquefoil, with pepper, in hydromel. 
Vervain, administered in water, is curative of fever, in beasts 
See B. xxiii. c. 16. 73 See B. xxi. c. 16. 
'^^ See B. xxiv. c. 88. 75 gee B. xxv. c. 87. 
76 See B. xxv. c. 70. 77 gee c. 30 of this Book. 
''^ See B, xxv. c. 39. 79 gee B. xxv. c. 40. 
