For the cure of erysipelas, aizoüm1413 is used, or else pounded leaves of hemlock, or root of mandragora;1414 this last being cut into round slices like cucumber and suspended over must,1415 after which it is hung up in the smoke, and then pounded in wine or vinegar. It is a good plan too to use fomentations with myrtle wine: two ounces of mint beaten up in vinegar with one ounce of live sulphur, form a mixture sometimes employed; as also soot mixed with vinegar.

There are several kinds of erysipelas, one in particular which attacks the middle of the body, and is known as “zoster:”1416 should it entirely surround the body, its effects are fatal. For this disease, plantago1417 is remedial, mixed with Cimolian1418 chalk; vervain, used by itself; or root of persolata.1419 For other kinds of erysipelas of a spreading nature, root of cotyledon1420 is used, mixed with honied wine; aizoüm also,1421 or juice of linozostis,1422 in combination with vinegar.