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used ; leaves or root of verbascum a liniment made of wine 
and hyssop ; root of acoron,^^ a decoction of it being used as a 
fomentation ; or else aizoiim.^^ Contusions also, hard tumours, 
and fistulous abscesses are treated with illecebra.^^ 
All kinds of foreign substances which have pierced the 
fiesh are extracted by using leaves of tussilago/^ daucus/^ or 
seed of leontopodium*^ pounded in water with polenta.*'* To 
suppurations, leaves of pycnocomon*^ are applied, beaten up 
with polenta, or else the seed of that plant, or orchis.*^ An 
application of root of satyrion*''^ is said to be a most efficacious 
remedy for deep-seated diseases of the bones. Corrosive ulcers 
and all kinds of gatherings are treated with sea-weed,*^ used 
before it has dried. Root, too, of alcima*^ disperses gatherings. 
CHAP. 80. — REMEDIES FOK BUENS. 
Burns are cured by the agency of plantago,^^ or of arction,^^ 
so effectually indeed as to leave no scar. The leaves of this 
last plant are boiled in water, beaten up, and applied to the 
sore. Roots of cyclaminos^^ are used, in combination with 
aizoum the kind of hypericon also, which we have mentioned 
as being called corissum.'^^ 
CHAP, 81. — EEMEDIES FOE DISEASES OF THE SINEWS AND JOINTS. 
For diseases of the sinews and joints, plantago,^^ beaten up 
with salt, is a very useful remedy, or else argemonia,^ pounded 
with honey. Patients affected with spasms or tetanus are 
rubbed with juice of peucedanum.^'' For indurations of the 
sinews, juice of segilops^® is employed, and for pains in those 
parts of the body erigeron^^ or epithymum,^^ used as a liniment, 
37 See B. XXV. c. 73. ss gee B. xxv. c. 100. 
39 See B. xxv. c. 102. gee B. xxv. c. 103. 
See B. xxiv. c. 85. ^2 See B. xxv. c. 64. 
4» See B. xxvii. c. 72. See B. xviii. c. 14. 
45 See Chapters 36 and 77 of this Book. 
46 See c. 62 of this Book. ^7 See c. 62 of this Book. 
48 See c. 66 of this Book. 
49 Probahly the " Alcea " of B. xxvii. c. 6. See also B. xxv. c. 77. 
^ See B. xxv. c. 39. si See B. xxvii. c. 16, 
52 See B. xxv. c. 67. ^3 See B. xxv. c. 102. 
54 Or *' Corison." See c. 53 of this Book. 
55 See B. xxv. c. 39. 56 See B. xxv. c. 56. 
57 See B. xxv. c. 70 . 58 See B. xxv. c. 93. 
59 See B. XIV. c. 106. so See c. 35 of this Book, 
