CHAP. 78.—REMEDIES FOR FISTULA.
Fistulas, too, insidiously attack all parts of the body, owing
to unskilfulness on the part of medical men in the use of the
knife. The smaller centaury [Note] is used for their cure, with the
addition of lotions [Note] and boiled honey: juice of plantago [Note] is
also employed, as an injection; cinquefoil, mixed with salt and
honey; ladanum, [Note] combined with castoreum; [Note] cotyledon, [Note]
applied hot with stag's marrow; pith of the root of verbascum [Note]
reduced to a liquid state in the shape of a lotion, and injected;
root of aristolochia; [Note] or juice of tithymalos. [Note]
