Latin Texts & Translations

Silaus ^[Note] is a plant which grows in running streams with a gravelly bed. It bears some resemblance to parsley, and is a cubit in height. It is cooked in the same manner as the acid vegetables, ^[Note] and is of great utility for affections of the bladder. In cases where that organ is affected with eruptions, ^[Note] it is used in combination with root of panaces, ^[Note] a plant which is otherwise bad for the bladder.

The erratic apple, ^[Note] too, is an expellent of calculi. For this purpose, a pound of the root is boiled down to one half in a congius of wine, and one hemina of the decoction is taken for three consecutive days, the remainder being taken in wine with sium. ^[Note] Sea-nettle ^[Note] is employed too for the same purpose, daucus, ^[Note] and seed of plantago in wine.