Chap. 15.] 
APAEINE. 
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pon/'^^ is a shrub-like plant, with an offensive smell, and a 
blossom like that of the cabbage. The seed grows in small 
hornlike pods of considerable length, and resembles a kidney 
in shape ; it hardens about the time of harvest. The leaves of 
this plant are applied to gatherings, and are attached to the 
person in cases of difficult parturition, care being taken to 
remove them the moment after delivery. In cases where the 
extraction of the dead foetus is attended with difficulty, or where 
the after-birth or catamenia are retarded, the leaves are taken, in 
doses of one drachma, in raisin wine. The leaves are adminis- 
tered in the same manner for asthma : they are prescribed also 
in old wine, for injuries inflicted by the phalangium.^^ The 
root is employed medicinally as a resolvent and maturative : 
the seed, chewed, acts as an emetic. 
CHAP. 14. — THE ANOirorOS : TWO EEMEDIES. 
The anonymos,^* through not having a name, has at last 
found one.^^ It is brought from Scythia, and has been highly 
extolled by Hicesius, a physician of no small repute, as also 
by Aristogiton. Eruised in water and applied, it is remarkably 
useful for wounds, and taken in drink it is good for blows upon 
the chest or mamillaB, as also for spitting of blood: it has 
been thought, too, that it might be advantageously taken in a 
potion for wounds. I am of opinion that the additional state- 
ment, to the effect that, burnt fresh, it acts as a solder to iron 
or copper, is wholly fabulous. 
CHAP. 15. (5.) — APAEINE, OMPHALOCAEPOS, OE PHILANTHEOPOS : 
THEEE EEMEDIES. 
Aparine,^^ otherwise caUed omphalocarpos"^"^ or philan- 
thropes,"^^ is a ramose, hairy, plant, with Ave or six leaves at 
regular intervals, arranged circularly around the branches. 
^2 " Dispelling lassitude." Identified with the Anagyris foeti.da of Lin- 
naeus, the Stinking bean trefoil. It is a purgative, and its seeds are emetic. 
^ See B. viii. e. 41, B. x. c. 95, B. xi. cc. 24, 28. 
It has not been identified, Pliny being the only author that has men- 
tioned it. The Ajuga pyramidalis of Linnaeus, and the Ajuga iva have 
been suggested. « Anonymos," or *' nameless." 
^6 See B. xviii. c. 44, and B. xxiy. c. 116. It is identified with the Galium 
Aparine of Linnaeus, Ladies* bedstraw, Cleavers, goosegrass, harifi", or 
catchweed. Its medicinal properties are next to nothing. 
57 "Navel-fruit." <' Man-loving.'' See B. xxiv. g. 116^ 
