For the cure of dropsy, tithymalos characias1398 is employed; panaces1399 also; plantago,1400 used as a diet, dry bread being eaten first, without any drink; betony, taken in doses of two drachmæ in two cyathi of ordinary wine or honied wine; agaric or seed of lonchitis,1401 in doses of two spoonfuls, in water; psyllion,1402 taken in wine; juice of either anagallis;1403 root of cotyledon1404 in honied wine; root of ebulum,1405 fresh gathered, with the mould shaken off, but not washed in water, a pinch in two fingers being taken in one hemina of old wine mulled; root of trefoil, taken in doses of two drachmæ in wine; the tithymalos1406 known as “platyphyllos;” seed of the hypericon,1407 otherwise known as “caros;” the plant called “acte”—the same thing as ebulum1408 according to some—the root of it being pounded in three cyathi of wine, if there are no symptoms of fever, or the seed of it being administered in red wine; a good handful of vervain also, boiled down in water to one half. But of all the remedies for this disease, juice of chamæacte1409 is looked upon as by far the most efficacious.

Morbid or pituitous eruptions are cured by the agency of plantago, or else root of cyclaminos1410 with honey. Leaves of ebulum,1411 bruised in old wine and applied topically, are curative of the disease called “boa,” which makes its appearance in the form of red pimples. Juice of strychnos,1412 applied as a liniment, is curative of prurigo.