CHAP. 79.—REMEDIES FOR ABSCESSES AND HARD TUMOURS.
Abscesses and inflammations are cured by an application of leaves of argemonia.[1449] For indurations and gatherings of all descriptions a decoction of vervain or cinquefoil in vinegar is used; leaves or root of verbascum;[1450] a liniment made of wine and hyssop; root of acoron,[1451] a decoction of it being used as a fomentation; or else aizoüm.[1452] Contusions also, hard tumours, and fistulous abscesses are treated with, illecebra.[1453]
All kinds of foreign substances which have pierced the flesh are extracted by using leaves of tussilago,[1454] daueus,[1455] or seed of leontopodium[1456] pounded in water with polenta.[1457] To suppurations, leaves of pycnocomon[1458] are applied, beaten up with polenta, or else the seed of that plant, or orchis.[1459] An application of root of satyrion[1460] is said to be a most efficacious remedy for deep-seated diseases of the bones. Corrosive ulcers and all kinds of gatherings are treated with sea-weed,[1461] used before it has dried. Root, too, of alcima[1462] disperses gatherings.