CHAP. 85.—REMEDIES FOR RUPTURES AND CONVULSIONS. ERYSITHALES: ONE REMEDY.

For ruptures, convulsions, and falls with violence, the greater centaury [1495] is used; root of gentian pounded or boiled; juice of betony—this last being employed also for ruptures produced by straining the vocal organs or sides—panaces;[1496] scordium;[1497] or aristolochia [1498] taken in drink. For contusions and falls, agaric is taken, in doses of two oboli, in three cyathi of honied wine, or if there are symptoms of fever, hydromel; the verbascum,[1499] also, with a golden flower; root of acoron;[1500] the several varieties of aizoüm,[1501] the juice of the larger kind being particularly efficacious; juice of symphytum,[1502] or a decoction of the root of that plant; daucus,[1503] unboiled; erysithales,[1504] a plant with a yellow flower and a leaf like that of acanthus, taken in wine; chamærops;[1505] irio,[1506] taken in pottage; plantago [1507] taken any way, as also * * * *