Z U MEDIC a; 
3. Synocha. Fevers. 
They pound fhell-JBfh ( cochlea ) both fhell and 
flefh, making a cataplafm of them, which they 
lay on the foie of the foot ; this ierves for a vefi- 
catory, and draws a blifter on the foie. It is the 
only remedy the Greeks at Athens, Salonica, &c. 
ufe in violent fevers •, and they apply it with fuc- 
cefs in the height of the difeafe. This they ufe in 
all fevers as a domeftick medicine. 
4. Tertiana. Ague. 
A fympathetick cure for the Ague, which the 
Greeks, in the ifland Morea, preferibe. 
When the patient begins to fhake, he goes and 
leans againft a peach-tree, until the fit or paroxyfin 
is over •, by this, they fay, he lofes his Ague, but 
the tree dies away. This was told me by a per- 
fon who lived a long time on Morea, and faw i £ 
performed, as the dilorder is common to all the 
inhabitants of this Iftand. 
Take an egg, roaft it in afhes till it become-* 
quite hard, fprinkle it all over with pepper, and 
eat it at once. A Swedifh merchant in Smyrn a 
was by this cured of an Ague, which never 
turned again. 
5. Cephalalgia. A domeftick cure, ufed by 
Arabians, for the Head acb. 
In a violent Head ach they fhave the head, an< j- 
with a knife cut feveral holes before the crown 0 
the head (futura coronalis) •, the blood which r° n 
out they ftroke forwards with a lharp edged p ieC ^- 
