CHAP. 85.—REMEDIES FOR RUPTURES AND CONVULSIONS. ERYSITHALES: ONE REMEDY.
For ruptures, convulsions, and falls with violence, the greater centaury1495 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 aristolochia1498 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; plantago1507 taken any way, as also * * * *