Chap. 89.] 
KEMEDIES FOE WABTS. 
209 
and then beaten up with polenta/^ and applied. For all kinds 
of wounds apollinaris** is very useful. Eoot of astragalus/* 
reduced to powder, is good for running ulcers ; the same, too, 
with callithrix,^^ boiled in water. For blisters, more particu- 
larly when caused by the shoes, vervain is used, as also pounded 
lysimachia, or nymphsea*^ dried and powdered ; but when 
they have assumed the form of inveterate ulcers, polythrix*** 
will be found more serviceable. 
Polycnemon*^ is a plant which resembles cunila bubula ; 
it has a seed like that of pennyroyal, a ligneous stem with 
numerous articulations, and odoriferous umbels, with a plea- 
sant though pungent smell. This plant is chewed and applied 
to wounds inflicted with iron, the application being removed 
at the end of four days. Symphyton^^ causes sores to cicatrize 
with the greatest rapidity; the same, too, with sideritis,^^ 
which is applied in combination with honey. The seed and 
leaves of verbascum,^* boiled in wine and pounded, are used for 
the extraction of all foreign substances adhering to the body; and 
a similar use is made of leaves of mandragora^^ mixed with po- 
lenta,^® and roots of cyclaminos^^ with honey. Leavesof trixago,^^ 
bruised in oil, are used for ulcers of a serpiginous nature more 
particularly, as also sea- weed bruised with honey. Betony, 
with the addition of salt, is employed for the cure of carcino- 
matous sores and inveterate blisters on the neck. 
CHAP. 89. EEMEDIES POK WAETS, AND APPLICATIOJiTS POR THE 
EEMOVAL OF SCAES. 
Argemonia^^ with vinegar, or root of batrachion,^*^ removes 
warts ; this last having the effect also of bringing off malformed 
^3 See B. xviii. c. 14. See B. xxv. c. 17. 
^5 See c. 29 of this Book. 
*6 See B. xxii. c. 30, and B. xxv. c. 86. ^'^ See B. xxv. c. 35. 
^8 See B. xxv. c, 37. See Note 46 above. 
^ Desfontaines identifies it with the Mentha cervina, or Stag mint, 
fi See B. xix. c. 50, and B. xx. c. 61. 
CHAP. 88. POLYCNEMOU- : ONE EEMEDY. 
^2 See B. xxvii. c. 24. 
^ See B. xxv. c. 73. 
53 See B. xxv. c. 19. 
55 See B. xxv. c. 94. 
57 See B. xxv. c. 67. 
59 See B. xxv. c. 56. 
See B. xviii. c. 14. 
S8 See B. xxiv. c. 80. 
80 See B. xxv. c. 109. 
VOL. Y. 
P 
