SECT. XLII.—FOR WORMS IN ULCERS.
For worms which form in ulcers, the first thing to be done is to stop the humidity and the putrefaction which occasion them. Worms may be killed by all the things in general which are described for those in the ear. But for those which form in ulcers Archigenes says, mix equal parts of ceruse and poley with liquid pitch, and anoint with it.
Commentary. Aëtius recommends dried plantain, the ashes of the wood of figs, and the juice of calamint. Galen and Avicenna also mention calamint.
Pliny mentions the gall of frogs.