[862] Or “blood-shot eyes.”
[863] A disease of the pupil.
[864] Belladonna, a preparation from the Atropa belladonna, is now generally used for this purpose.
[865] “Paracentesis.”
[866] This plant is unknown. Fée suggests that Pliny may have made a mistake, and that the account from which he copies may have been, that when cattle have been stung by the asilus, or gadfly, they have recourse to the Anagallis.
[867] “Savage eye.”
[868] In c. 38 of this Book.
[869] See B. xviii. c. 44, and B. xxi. c. 63.
[870] Or “Plant of Circe.”
[871] Identified by Fée with the Atropa mandragora vernalis of Bertolini, the Spring mandrake.