CHAP. 97. (26.)—EIGHT REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE HYACINTH.
The hyacinth [Note] grows in Gaul more particularly, where it
is employed for the dye called "hysginum." [Note] The root of it
is bulbous, and is well known among the dealers in slaves:
applied to the body, with sweet wine, it retards the signs of
puberty, [Note] and prevents them from developing themselves. It
is curative, also, of gripings of the stomach, and of the bites of
spiders, and it acts as a diuretic. The seed is administered,
with abrotonum, for the stings of serpents and scorpions, and
for jaundice.
