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of burden even ; but care must be taken, in cases of tertian 
fever, to cut the plant at tbe third joint, and of quartan fever 
at the fourth. The seed of either kind of hypericon^^ is taken 
also for quartan fevers and cold shiverings. Powdered betony 
modifies these fits, and panaces^^ is of so warming a nature 
that persons when about to travel amid the snow are recom- 
mended to drink an infusion of it, and to rub the body all over 
Avith the plant. Aristolochia^^* also arrests shivering produced 
by cold. 
CHAP. 72. BEMEDIES FOR PHRENITIS, LETHARGY, AND 
CARBUNCLES. 
Phrenitis is cured by sleep induced by the agency of an 
infusion of peucedanum^^ in vinegar, poured upon the head, or 
else by the juice of either kind of anagallis.®^* On the other 
hand, when patients are suffering from lethargy, it is with the 
greatest difficulty that they are aroused ; a result which may 
be effected, they say, by touching the nostrils with juice of 
peucedanum in vinegar. Por the cure of insanity, betony is 
administered in drink. Panaces^^ brings carbuncles to a head, 
and makes them break; and they are equally cured by 
powdered betony applied in water, or else cabbage leaves 
mixed vith frankincense in warm water, and taken in con- 
siderable quantities. Por a similar purpose, a red-hot coal is 
extinguished in the patients presence, and the ashes are taken 
up with the finger and applied to the sore. Bruised plantago^^* 
is also used for the cure of carbuncles. 
CHAP. 73. REMEDIES POR DROPSY. ACTE OR EBULUM. 
CHAM^ACTE. 
Por the cure of dropsy, tithymalos characias^* is employed ; 
panaces^^ also ; plantago,^^ used as a diet, dry bread being 
eaten first, without any drink ; betony, taken in doses of two 
drachmoB in two cyathi of ordinary wine or honied wine ; 
agaric or seed of lonchitis,®"^ in doses of two spoonfuls, in 
^ See Chapters 53 and 54 of this Book. 
See B. XXV. c. 11, et seq. See B. xxv. c. 54. 
^ See B. xxv. c. 70. 82* gee B. xxv. c. 92. 
^'^ See B xxv. c. 11, et seq, See B. xxv. c. 39. 
See c. 39 of this Book. See B. xxv. c. 11, seq. 
86 See B. xxv. c. 39. 87 gee B. xxv. c. 88. 
