By Pliny, W. H. S. Jones
Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and author, is writer of the encyclopedic traditional background, in 37 books, an unmatched compendium of Roman wisdom. The contents of the books are as follows. booklet 1: desk of contents of the others and of gurus; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the recognized global; 7: anthropology and the body structure of guy; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant items as utilized in drugs; 28-32: clinical zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the wonderful arts, and gem stones. The Loeb Classical Library variation of ordinary heritage is in ten volumes.
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BOOK XX. IV. 9-vi. 12 of" water, and that sudden tumours are cured by a Hniment made by mixing it with woman's milk. Elaterium promotes menstruation but causes abortion when taken by women with child. in half a sextarius It is good for asthma and injected into the nostrils. on the face. it also for jaundice Smeared in when the sunshine removes therefrom freckles and spots. V. Many authorities assign all these qualities to the cultivated cucumbers, which even apart from them is of great importance.
It arrests also looseness of bowels in quadrupeds, either pounded and mixed with their drink, or chewed up when they eat their food. " XIX. Elecampane too chewed by people fasting strengthens the teeth. If it is taken from the ground so as not to touch it, a confection of it is heahng for a cough the juice moreover of the boiled root expels worms, and dried in the shade its powdered form cures cough, convulsions, flatulence and affections of the trachea. It keeps offthe bite of poisonous Eiecampam ; An apphcation of the leaves steeped in used for himbago.
Taken by itself when dried it is a drastic purge. Used also as an enema an injection is a remedy for all complaints of the bowels, of tlie kidneys, and of the loins, as well as for paralysis. After the seed has been pickcd out, hydromel is added and boiled down to one half, which gives a very safe strength for an injection of four oboli. The stomach is benefited also by taking pills made of the dry powder niixed with boiled honey. In jaundice seven seeds of it are taken, to be followed bite is followed by swelling, the The pulp added to wormimmediately by hydromel.