CHAP. 30. (9.)—REMEDIES FOR PAINS IN THE LIVER AND SIDE.
THE ELONGATED CONCH: SIX REMEDIES. THE TETHEA: FIVE
REMEDIES.
For pains in the liver, a sea-scorpion is killed in wine, and
the liquid is taken. The meat, too, of the elongated conch [Note] is
taken with honied wine and water, in equal quantities, or, if
there are symptoms of fever, with hydromel. Pains in the
side are assuaged by taking the flesh of the hippocampus, [Note]
grilled, or else the tethea, [Note] very similar to the oyster, with
the ordinary food. For sciatica, the pickle of the silurus is
injected, by way of clyster. The flesh of conchs, too, is prescribed,
for fifteen days, in doses of three oboli soaked in two
sextarii of wine.
