Chap. 30.] 
REMEDIES rOK TEYEES. 
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the scorpion, which is set at liberty after the operation, or 
the person wlio has attached the amulet, for the space of 
three d ays : after the^ recurrence, too, of the third paroxysm, 
he must bury the whole in the ground. Some enclose a cater- 
pillar in a piece of linen with a thread passed three times 
round it, and tie as manj knots, repeating at each knot why it 
is that the patient performs that operation. A slug is some- 
times wrapped in a piece of skin, or the heads of four slugs, 
cut from the body with a reed : a millepede is rolled up in 
wool : the small grubs that produce the gadfly,^^ are used 
before the wings of the insect are developed ; or any other kind 
of hairy grub is employed that is found adhering to prickly 
shrubs. Some persons attach to the body four of these grubs, 
enclosed in an empty walnut shell, or else some of the snails 
that are found without a shell. 
In other cases, again, it is the practice to enclose a spotted 
lizard in a little box, and to place it beneath the pillow of the 
patient, taking care to set it at liberty when the fever abates. 
It is recommended also, that the patient should swallow the 
heart of a sea- diver, removed from the bird without the aid of 
iron, it being first dried and then bruised and taken in warm 
water. The heart of a swallow is also recommended, with 
honey ; and there are persons who say that, just before the 
paroxysms come on, the patient should take one drachma of 
swallow's dung in three cyathi of goats' milk or ewes' milk, 
or of raisin wine : others, again, are of opinion that the birds 
themselves should be taken, whole. The nations of Parthia, 
as a remedy for quartan fevers, take the skin of the asp, in 
doses of one sixth of a denarius, with an equal quantity of 
pepper. The philosopher Chrysippus has left a statement to 
the effect, that the phryganion,^^ worn as an amulet, is a 
remedy for quartan fevers ; but what kind of animal this is he 
has nowhere informed us, nor have I been able to meet with 
any one who knows. Still, however, I felt myself bound to 
notice a remedy that was mentioned by an author of such high 
repute, in case any other person should happen to be more 
successful in his researches. To eat the flesh of a crow, and 
38 See B. xi. c. 38. 
39 Some suppose that this was an insect that lived among dry wood, 
and derive tlie name from the Greek ^pvyavbv. Queslon is of opinion that 
it is the salamander. 
