Latin Texts & Translations

For diseases of the bladder and calculi (affections which, as :already observed, ^[Note] produce the most excruciating torments), palimonies ^[Note] is highly efficacious, taken in wine; agaric also, and leaves or root of plantago, taken in raisin wine. Betony,

too, is very good, as already observed, when speaking ^[Note] of diseases of the liver. This last plant is used also for hernia, applied topically or taken in drink: it is remarkably efficacious too for stranger. For calculi some persons recommend betony, vervain, and milfoil, in equal proportions in water, as a sovereign remedy. It is universally agreed that dittany is curative of strangury, and that the same is the case with ainquefoil, boiled down to one third in wine: this last plant is very useful, too, taken internally and applied topically, for rupture of the groin.

The upper part of the root of xiphion ^[Note] has a diuretic effect upon infants; it is administered also in water for rupture of the groin, and is applied topically for diseases of the bladder. Juice of peucedanumn ^[Note] is employed for hernia in infants, and psyllion ^[Note] is used as an application in cases of umbilical bernia. The two kinds of anagallis ^[Note] are diuretic, and a similar effect is produced by a decoction of root of acoron, ^[Note] or the plant itself bruised and taken in drink; this last is good too for all affections of the bladder. Both the stem and root of cotyledon ^[Note] are used for the cure of calculi; and for all inflammations of the genitals, myrrh is mixed in equal proportions with the stem and seed. The more tender leaves of ebulum, ^[Note] beaten up and taken with wine, expel calculi of the bladder, and an application of them is curative of diseases of the testes. Erigeron, ^[Note] with powdered frankincense and sweet wine, is curative of inflammation of the testes; and root of symphytum, ^[Note] applied topically, reduces rupture of the groin. The white hypocisthis ^[Note] is curative of corroding ulcers of the genitals. Artemisia ^[Note] is prescribed also in sweet wine for the cure of calculi and of strangury; and root of nymphæa heraclia, ^[Note] taken in wine, allays pains in the bladder.