CHAP. 24.—THE LETTUCE: FORTY-TWO REMEDIES. THE GOAT-
LETTUCE: FOUR REMEDIES.
The first kind of lettuce which grows spontaneously, is the
one that is generally known as "goat [Note]-lettuce;" thrown into
the sea, this vegetable has the property of instantaneously killing all the fish that come into its vicinity. The milky juice
of this lettuce, [Note] left to thicken and then put into vinegar,
is given in doses of two oboli, with the addition of one cyathus
of water, to patients for dropsy. The stalk and leaves, bruised
and sprinkled with salt, are used for the cure of wounds of
the sinews. Pounded with vinegar, and employed as a
gargle in the morning twice a month, they act as a preventive
of tooth-ache.
