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nails. The juice or the leaves, applied topically, of either 
kind of linozostis,^^ remove warts. All the varieties of tithy- 
malos^^ are efficacious for the removal of every kind of wart, 
as also of hangnails^^ and wens. Ladanum^* imparts a fresh 
colour and seemly appearance to scars. 
(15.) The traveller who carries artemisia^^ attached to his 
person, or elelisphacus, will never be sensible of lassitude, it 
is said. 
One great remedy for all female diseases in common, is the 
black seed of the herbaceous plant paeonia,^^ taken in hydro- 
mel : the root also is an effectual emmenagogue. Seed of 
panaces,^^ mixed with wormwood, acts as an emmenagogue and 
as a sudorific : the same, too, with scordotis,^^ taken internally 
or applied topically. Betony, in doses of one drachma to 
three cyathi of wine, is taken for various affections of the 
uterus, as also directly after child-birth. Excessive menstru- 
ation is arrested by a pessary of achillea,"^^ or else a sitting-bath 
composed of a decoction of that plant. Seed of henbane in 
wine is used as a liniment for diseases of the mamillae, 
and the root is employed in the form of a plaster for uterine 
affections ; chelidonia,'''^ too^ is applied to the mamillse. 
Eoots of panaces,"^^ applied as a pessary, bring away the 
after-birth and the dead foetus, and the plant itself, taken in 
wine, or used as a pessary with honey, acts as a detergent 
upon the uterus. Poiemonia,^^ taken in wine, brings away the 
after-birth ; used as a fumigation, it is good for suffocations of 
the uterus. Juice of the smaller centaury,^^ taken in drink, or 
employed as a fomentation, acts as an emmenagogue. The root 
also of the larger centaury, similarly used, is good for pains in 
the uterus; scraped and used as a pessary, it expels the 
dead foetus. For pains of the uterus, plantago^^ is applied as 
a pessary, in wool, and for hysterical suffocations, it is taken in 
See B. XXV. c. 18. See c. 39 of this Book, et seq. 
63 u Pterygia." See B. xii. c. 37 and c. 30 of this Book. 
«5 See B. XXV. c. 81. See B. xxii. c. 71. 
6^ See B. XXV. c, 10. See B. xxv. c. 11, et seq. 
CHAP. 90. EEMEDIES TOR FEMALE DISEASES, 
See B. xxv. c. 27. 
"^^ See B. xxv. c. 50. 
73 See B. xxv. c. 28. 
75 See B. xxv. c. 39. 
'0 See B. xxv. c. 19. 
See B. xxv. c. 11, et seq, 
■J* See B, xxv. g. 31. 
