Latin Texts & Translations

For diseases of the sinews and joints, plantago, ^[Note] beaten up with salt, is a very useful remedy, or else argemonia, ^[Note] pounded with honey. Patients affected with spasms or tetanus are rubbed with juice of peucedanum. ^[Note] For indurations of the sinews, juice of ægilops ^[Note] is employed, and for pains in those parts of the body erigeron ^[Note] or epithymum, ^[Note] used as a liniment,

with vinegar. In cases of spasms and opisthotony, it is an excellent plan to rub the part affected with seed of the hype- ricon known as "caros," ^[Note] and to take the seed in drink. Phrynion, ^[Note] it is said, will effect a cure even when the sinews have been severed, if applied instantaneously, bruised or chewed. For spasmodic affections, fits of trembling, and opisthotony, root of alcima ^[Note] is administered in hydromel; used in this manner, it has a warming effect when the limbs are benumbed with cold.