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EEMEDIES FOR ULCERS. 
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Lysimachia^^ is curative of recent wounds, and plantago^^ of 
all kinds of ulcerations, those on females, infants, and aged per- 
sons more particularly. This plant, when softened by the action 
of fire, is better still : in combination with cerate it acts as a 
detergent upon ulcers with indurated edges, and arrests the 
progress of corrosive sores : when applied bruised, it should be 
covered with its own leaves. Chelidonia^"* also acts as a 
desiccative upon suppurations, abscesses, and fistulous ulcers ; 
indeed, it is so remarkably useful for the cure of wounds, as 
to be employed as a substitute for spodium^^ even. In cases 
where the cure is almost hopeless, it is applied with axle- 
grease. Dittany, taken internally, causes arrows to fall from 
the flesh ; used as a liniment, it has the effect of extracting other 
kinds of pointed weapons : the leaves are taken in the pro- 
portion of one obolus to one cyathus of water. Nearly equal 
in its efficacy is pseudo-dictamnon : ^'^ they are both of them 
useful, also, for dispersing suppurations. 
Aristolochia^^ cauterizes putrid sores, and, applied with honey, 
acts as a detergent upon sordid ulcers. At the same time also, 
it removes maggots, and extracts hard cores, and all foreign 
bodies adhering to the flesh, arrows more particularly, and, 
applied with resin, splintered bones. Used by itself, it fills the 
cavities made by ulcers with new flesh, and, employed with 
iris,^^ in vinegar, it closes recent wounds. Vervaio, or cinque- 
foil with salt and honey, is remedial for ulcers of long stand- 
ing. Eoots of persolata-^ are applied to recent wounds in- 
flicted with iron, but for old wounds, it is the leaves that are 
employed : in both cases, in combination with axle-grease, the 
sore being then covered with the leaves of the plant. Damaso- 
nium^^ is used for wounds the same way as for scrofula,'^^ and 
leaves of verbascum^'"^ are employed with vinegar or wine. 
Vervain is useful for all kinds of callosities or putrid sores ; 
root of nymphaea heraclia^* is curative of running ulcers ; and 
12 See B. XXV. c. 35. is g^e B. xxv. c. 39. 
1* See B. xxv. c. 50. 
1^ See B. xix. c. 4, B. xxiii. c. 35, and B. xxxiv. c. 52. 
16 See B. xxv. c. 53. 
" Bastard dittany. See B. xxv. C. 53. 
18 See B. xxv. c. 54. i9 See B. xxi. c. 19. 
20 See B. xxv. c. 66. 21 See B. xxv. c. 77. 
23 See c. 12 of this Book. 23 gee B. xxv. c. 73. 
2* See B. xxv. c. 37. . 
