Latin Texts & Translations

The hippophæston is one of those prickly plants which fullers ^[Note] use in their coppers; it has neither stem nor flower,

but only diminutive, empty heads, numerous small leaves of a grass-green colour, and small, soft, white roots. From these roots a juice is extracted in summer, which, taken in doses of three oboli, acts as a purgative; being used for this purpose in cases of epilepsy, fits of trembling, dropsy, vertigo, hardness of breathing, and incipient paralysis.