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For the cure of intestinal hernia the sea-hare is applied, bruised with honey. The liver of the water-snake, [Note] and that of the hydrus, [Note] bruised and taken in drink, are remedial for urinary calculi. Sciatica is cured by using the pickle of the silurus [Note] as a clyster, the bowels being first thoroughly purged. For chafing of the fundament, an application is made of heads of mullets and surmullets, reduced to ashes; for which purpose they are calcined in an earthen vessel, and must be applied in combination with honey. Calcined heads, too, of the fish known as mænæ [Note] are useful for the cure of chaps and condylomata; as also heads of salted pelamides, [Note] reduced to ashes, or calcined cybium, [Note] applied with honey.
The torpedo, [Note] applied topically, reduces procidence of the rectum. River-crabs, [Note] reduced to ashes, and applied with oil and wax, are curative of chaps of the fundament: sea-crabs, too, are equally useful for the purpose.
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