Latin Texts & Translations

For the cure of dropsy, tithymalos characias ^[Note] is employed; panaces ^[Note] also; plantago, ^[Note] used as a diet, dry bread being eaten first, without any drink; betony, taken in doses of two drachme in two cyathi of ordinary wine or honied wine; agaric or seed of lonchitis, ^[Note] in doses of two spoonfuls, in

water; psyllion, ^[Note] taken in wine; juice of either anagallis; ^[Note] root of cotyledon ^[Note] in honied wine; root of ebulum, ^[Note] fresh gathered, with the mould shaken off, but not washed in water, a pinch in two fingers being taken in one hemina of old wine mulled; root of trefoil, taken in doses of two drachmæ in wine; the tithymalos ^[Note] known as "platyphyllos;" seed of the hypericon, ^[Note] otherwise known as "caros;" the plant called "acte"—the same thing as ebulum ^[Note] according to some—the root of it being pounded in three cyathi of wine, if there are no symptoms of fever, or the seed of it being administered in red wine; a good handful of vervain also, boiled down in water to one half. But of all the remedies for this disease, juice of chamæacte ^[Note] is looked upon as by far the most efficacious.

Morbid or pituitous eruptions are cured by the agency of plantago, or else root of cyclaminos ^[Note] with honey. Leaves of ebulum, ^[Note] bruised in old wine and applied topically, are curative of the disease called "boa," which makes its appearance in the form of red pimples. Juice of strychnos, ^[Note] applied as a liniment, is curative of prurigo.