There are boils also, known as “furunculi,”1436 which make their appearance indiscriminately on all parts of the body, and are productive of the greatest inconvenience: sometimes indeed, when the constitution is exhausted, they are fatal in their effects. For their cure, leaves of pycnocomon1437 are employed, beaten up with polenta,1438 if the boil has not come to a head. They are dispersed also by an application of leaves of ephedron.1439