We shall also here make mention of certain preparations for the cure of offensive breath—a most noisome inconvenience. For this purpose, leaves of myrtle and lentisk are taken in equal proportions, with one half the quantity of Syrian nut-galls; they are then pounded together and sprinkled with old wine, and the composition is chewed in the morning. In similar cases, also, ivy berries are used, in combination with cassia and myrrh; these ingredients being mixed, in equal proportions, with wine.

For offensive odours of the nostrils, even though attended with carcinoma, the most effectual remedy is seed of dracontium945 beaten up with honey. An application of hyssop has the effect of making bruises disappear. Brand marks946 in the face are healed by rubbing them with mandragora.947

Summary.—Remedies, narratives, and observations, twelve hundred and ninety-two.

Roman authors quoted.—C. Valgius,948 Pompeius Lenæus,949 Sextius Niger950 who wrote in Greek, Julius Bassus951 who wrote in Greek, Antonius Castor,952 Cornelius Celsus,953 Fabianus.954

Foreign authors quoted.—Theophrastus,955 Apollodorus,956 Democritus,957 Juba,958 Orpheus,959 Pythagoras,960 Mago,961 Menander962 who wrote the “Biochresta,” Nicander,963 Homer, Hesiod,964 Musæus,965 Sophocles,966 Xanthus,967 Anaxilaüs.968

Medical authors quoted.—Mnesitheus,969 Callimachus,970 Phanias971 the physician, Timaristus,972 Simus,973 Hippocrates,974 Chrysippus,975 Diocles,976 Ophelion,977 Heraclides,978 Hicesius,979 Dionysius,980 Apollodorus981 of Citium, Apollodorus982 of Tarentum, Praxagoras,983 Plistonicus,984 Medius,985 Dieuches,986 Cleophantus,987 Philistion,988 Asclepiades,989 Crateuas,990 Petronius Diodotus,991 Iollas,992 Erasistratus,993 Diagoras,994 Andreas,995 Mnesides,996 Epicharmus,997 Damion,998 Sosimenes,999 Tlepolemus,1000 Metrodorus,1001 Solon,1002 Lycus,1003 Olympias1004 of Thebes, Philinus,1005 Petrichus,1006 Micton,1007 Glaucias,1008 Xenocrates.1009