Chap. 79.] EEMEDIES rOB ABSCESSES. 201 
Leaves of tussilago^® are also used in water for this purpose ; 
the seed of either kind of linozostis/^ sprinkled in the drink, or 
made into a decoction with chick-pease or wormwood : hyssop 
berries taken in water; the plant lichen,^^ all other vege- 
tables being carefully abstained from while it is being used ; 
polythrix,^^ taken in wine ; and struthion,^^ in honied wine. 
CHAP. 77. EEMEDIES EOR BOILS. 
There are boils also, known as furunculi,^'^^ which make 
their appearance indiscriminately on all parts of the body, and 
are productive of the greatest inconvenience : sometimes 
indeed, when the constitution is exhausted, they are fatal in 
their effects. For their cure, leaves of pycnocomon^^ are em- 
ployed, beaten up with polenta, if the boil has not come to a 
head. They are dispersed also by an application of leaves of 
ephedron.^^ 
CHAP. 78. EEMEDIES FOE FISTULA. 
Eistulas, too, insidiously attack all parts of the body, owing 
to unskilfulness on the part of medical men in the use of the 
knife. The smaller centaury^^ is used for their cure, with the 
addition of lotions^^ and boiled honey : juice of plantago^^ is 
also employed, as an injection ; cinquefoil, mixed with salt and 
honey ; ladanum,^^ combined with castoreum cotyledon/^ 
applied hot with stag's marrow ; pith of the root of verbascum^^ 
reduced to a liquid state in the shape of a lotion, and injected ; 
root of aristolochia or juice of tithymalos.^^ 
CHAP. 79. EEMEDIES FOE ABSCESSES AND HAED TUMOTJES. 
Abscesses and inflammations are cured by an application of 
leaves of argemonia.^^ For indurations and gatherings of all 
descriptions a decoction of vervain or cinquefoil in vinegar is 
Or BecMon. See B. xxiv. c. 85. 
19 See B. XXV. c. 19. 20 gee c. 10 of this Book. 
21 See B. XXV. c. 83. 22 gge B. xix. c. 18. 
23 Little thieves," literally. 24 35 this Book. 
25 See B. xviii. c. 14. 26 gee c. 83 of this Book. 
27 See B. XXV. c. 31. 28 u CoUyriis.'' 
29 See B. XXV. c. 39 so See B. xii. c. 37, and c. 30 of this Book. 
3^ See B. viii. c. 47. 32 gee B. xxv. c. 101. 
33 See B. xxv. c. 73. 3* See B. xxv. c. 54. 
35 See c. 39 of this Book. 36 gee B. xxv. c. 56. 
