Latin Texts & Translations

For ruptures, convulsions, and falls with violence, the greater centaury ^[Note] is used; root of gentian pounded or boiled; juice of betony—this last being employed also for ruptures produced by straining the vocal organs or sides—panaces; ^[Note] scordium; ^[Note] or aristolochia ^[Note] taken in drink. For contusions and falls, agaric is taken, in doses of two oboli, in three cyathi of honied wine, or if there are symptoms of fever, hydromel; the verbascum, ^[Note] also, with a golden flower; root of acoron ^[Note] the several varieties of Aizoüm, ^[Note] the juice of the larger kind being particularly efficacious; juice of symphytum, ^[Note] or a decoction of the root of that plant; daucus, ^[Note] unboiled; erysithales, ^[Note] a plant with a yellow flower and a leaf like that of acanthus, taken in wine; chamærops; ^[Note] irio, ^[Note] taken in pottage; plantago ^[Note] taken any way, as also * * * *