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Lysimachia [Note] imparts a blonde tint [Note] to the hair, and the hypericon, [Note] otherwise called "corisson," makes it black. The same too, with ophrys, [Note] a plant with indentations, which re
sembles the cabbage, but has only two leaves. Polemonia, [Note] too, boiled in oil, imparts blackness to the hair.
As for depilatories, I reckon them in the number of cosmetics, fit for women only, though men use them now-a-days. For this purpose archezostis [Note] is looked upon as highly efficacious, as also juice of tithymalos, [Note] applied with oil every now and then in the sun, or after pulling out the hairs. Hyssop, applied with oil, heals itch-scab in beasts, and side- citis [Note] is particularly useful for quinzy in swine.
But let us now turn to the remaining plants of which we have to speak.
SUMMARY.—Remedies, narratives, and observations, one thousand and nineteen.
ROMAN AUTHORS QUOTED.—M. Varro, [Note] C. Valgius, [Note] Pompeius Lenæus, [Note] Sextius Niger [Note] who wrote in Greek, Julius Bassus [Note] who wrote in Greek, Antonius Castor, [Note] Cornelius Celsus. [Note]
FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Theophrastus, [Note] Democritus, [Note] Juba, [Note] Orpheus, [Note] Pythagoras, [Note] Mago, [Note] Menander [Note] who wrote the "Biochresta," Nicander, [Note] Homer, Hesiod, [Note] Musæus, [Note] Sophocles, [Note] Xanthus, [Note] Anaxilaüs. [Note]
MEDICAL AUTHORS QUOTED.—Mnesitheus, [Note] Callimachus, [Note]
Phanias [Note] the physician, Timaristus, [Note] Simus, [Note] Hippocrates, [Note] Chrysippus, [Note] Diocles, [Note] Ophelion, [Note] Heraclides, [Note] Hicesius, [Note] Dionysius, [Note] Apollodorus [Note] of Citium, Apollodorus [Note] of Tarentum, Praxagoras, [Note] Plistonicus, [Note] Medius, [Note] Dieuches, [Note] Cleophantus, [Note] Philistion, [Note] Asclepiades, [Note] Creteuas, [Note] Petronius Diadotus, [Note] Iollas, [Note] Erasistratus, [Note] Diagoras, [Note] Andreas, [Note] Mnesides, [Note] Epicharmus, [Note] Damion, [Note] Tlepolemus, [Note] Metrodorus, [Note] Solo, [Note] Lycus, [Note] Olympias [Note] of Thebes, Philinus, [Note] Petrichus, [Note] Micton, [Note] Glaucias, [Note] Xenocrates. [Note]
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