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BEMEDTES EOE EUPTUEES. 
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ashes of that plant. Eor a similar purpose, also, the fungus 
that is found growing near the root of fennel-giant is still 
more efficacious. 
For bleeding at the nostrils, seed of hemlock, pounded in 
water, is considered efficacious, as also stephanomelis,^^ applied 
with water. Powdered betony, taken with goat's milk, or 
bruised plantago/^ arrests discharges of blood from the ma- 
millse. Juice of plantago is administered to patients when 
vomiting blood. For local discharges of blood, an application of 
root of persolata^^ with stale axle-grease is highly spoken of. 
CHAP. 85. EEMEDIES EOE EUPTTJEES AND CONVULSIONS. 
EEYSITHALES : ONE EEMEDY. 
For ruptures, convulsions, and falls with violence, the greater 
centaury®- is used ; root of gentian pounded or boiled ; juice of 
betony — this last being employed also for ruptures produced by 
straining the vocal organs or sides — panaces scordium or 
aristolochia^^ taken in drink. For contusions and falls, agaric 
is taken, in doses of two oboli, in three cyathi of honied wine, 
or if there are symptoms of fever, hydromel ; the verbascum,®^ 
also, with a golden flower ; root of acoron the several varieties 
of aizoiim,^^ the juice of the larger kind being particularly 
efficacious ; juice of Symphytum,®^ or a decoction of the root of 
that plant ; daucus,^^ unboiled ; erysithales,^^ a plant with a 
yellow flower and a leaf like that of acanthus, taken in wine; 
chamserops irio,^^ taken in pottage ; plantago^* taken any 
way, as also * * ^ 
Dalechamps identifies it with the Potentilla anserina of Linnaeus, 
Silver- weed, or White tansy ; but on insufficient grounds, Fee thinks. 
80 See B. xxv. c. 39. «i See B. xxv. c. 66. 
82 See B. xxv. c. 30. 83 ggg jj xxv. c. 11, et seq. 
90 See B. xxv. c. 64. 
9' C. Bauhin identifies it with, the Cnicus erysithales of Willdenow ; 
but that plant, Fee says, was unknown to the Greeks. 
See B. xxiv. c. 80. 93 gge B. xviii. c. 10. 
9* See B. xxv. c. 39.. 
CHAP. 84. — STEPHANOMELIS. 
8* See B. xxv. c. 27. 
86 See B. xxv. c. 73. 
88 See B. xxv. c. 102. 
85 See B. xxv. c. 54. 
87 See B. xxv. c. 100. 
89 See B. xxvii. c. 24. 
