Chap, 74.] 
EEMEDIES rOE ERYSIPELAS. 
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water; psyllion/^ taken in wine; juice of either anagallis;®^ 
root of cotyledon^^ in honied wine ; root of ebulum/^ fresh 
gathered, with the mould shaken off, but not washed in 
water, a pinch in two fingers being taken in one hemina of 
old wine mulled; root of trefoil, taken in doses of two 
drachmae in wine ; the tithymalos^^ known as platyphyllos 
seed of th^ hypericon,^^ otherwise known as **caros;*' the 
plant called '*acte" — the same thing as ebulum^* according to 
some — the root of it being pounded in three cyathi of wine, if 
there are no symptoms of fever, or the seed of it being ad- 
ministered in red wine ; a good handful of vervain also, boiled 
down in water to one half. Eut of all the remedies for this 
disease, juice of chamaeacte®^ is looked upon as by far the most 
efficacious. 
Morbid or pituitous eruptions are cured by the agency of 
plantago, or else root of cyclaminos^^ with honey. Leaves of 
ebulum,^^ bruised in old wine and applied topically, are curative 
of the disease called **boa," which makes its appearance in 
the form of red pimples. Juice of strychnos,^® applied as a 
liniment, is curative of prurigo. 
CHAP. 74. EEMEDIES FOR ERYSIPELAS. 
Eor the cure of erysipelas, aizoiim^^ is used, or else pounded 
leaves of hemlock, or root of mandragora ;^ this last being cut 
into round slices like encumber and suspended over must,^ after 
which it is hung up in the smoke, and then pounded in wine 
or vinegar. It is a good plan too to use fomentations with 
myrtle wine : two ounces of mint beaten up in vinegar with 
one ounce of live sulphur, form a mixture sometimes employed ; 
as also soot mixed with vinegar. 
There are several kinds of erysipelas, one in particular 
which attacks the middle of the body, and is known as 
" zoster should it entirely surround the body, its effects are 
88 See B. XXV. c. 90. gge B. xxv. c. 92. 
^ See B. xxv. c. 101. 9i See B. xxv. c. 71. 
92 See c. 44 of this Book. 93 gee c. 54 of this Book, 
^ See B. xxv. c. 71. gge B. xxv. c. 71. 
96 See B. xxv. c. 67. 9^ See B. xxv. c. 71. 
9» See B. xxi. c. lOo. 99 See B. xxv. c. 102. 
^ See B. xxv. c. 94. 2 Qr Grape-juice. 
^ The "belt " — known to us as " shingles.'* 
