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same, too, with the leaves, taken in doses of one drachma in 
drink. The leaves, if applied to the lower regions of the 
abdomen with barley-meal, will prove equally efficacious. 
Acoron^ is very useful for internal complaints of females ; 
as also the two varieties of conyza,^ and crethmos.* Either 
kind of anthyllis,^ taken in wine, is remarkably good for uterine 
fiffections, griping pains in that organ, and retardations of the 
after-birth. Callithrix,^ applied as a fomentation, is curative 
of affections of the vagina : it removes scaly eruptions' also 
of the head, and, beaten up in oil, it stains the hair. Ge- 
ranion,^ taken in white wine, or hypocisthis^ in red, arrests 
all uterine discharges. Hyssop modifies hysterical suffocations. 
Eoot of vervain, taken in water, is a most excellent remedy 
for all accidents incident to, or consequent upon, delivery. 
Some persons mix bruised cypress seed with peucedanum^^ in 
red wine. Seed, too, of psyllion,^^ boiled in water and taken 
warm, has a soothing effect upon all defluxions of the uterus. 
Symphyton,^^ bruised in wine, promotes menstruation. Juice 
of scordotis,^^ in the proportion of one drachma to four cyatlii 
of hydromel, accelerates delivery. Leaves of dittany are given 
for the same purpose, in water, with remarkable success. It 
is a well-known fact, too, that these leaves, to the extent of a 
single obolus even, will bring away the foetus instantaneously, 
even when dead, without the slightest inconvenience to the 
patient, Pseudodictamnum is productive of a somewhat 
similar effect, but not in so marked a degree : cyclaminos,^^ 
too, attached as an amulet; cissanthemos,^^ taken in drink; 
and powdered betony, in hydromel. 
CHAP. 91. AESENOGONON : OKE MEDICINAL PEOPERTY. IHELY- 
GONON : ONE MEDICINAL PEOPEETY. 
Arsenogonon^^ and thelygonon are plants, both of them, 
2 See B. XXV. c. 100. 3 gee B. xxi. c. 29. 
* See B. XXV. c. 96. s gee B. xxi. c. 103. 
6 See B. xxii. c. 30, and B. xxv. c. 86. " Albugines," 
8 See 0. 68 of this Book. 9 See c. 31 of this Book. 
10 See B. xxv. c. 70. See B. xxv. c. 90. 
12 See B. xxvii. c. 24. i3 gee B. xxv. c. 27. 
1* See B. xxv. c. 53. is See B. xxv. c. 67. 
16 See B. xxv. c. 68. 
^"^ These two plants, the names of which signify ''begetting males," 
