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CHAP. 110.—REMEDIAL PREPARATIONS FOR OFFENSIVE BREATH : TWO KINDS OF THEM.

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 dracontium1 beaten up with honey. An application of hyssop has the effect of making bruises disappear. Brand marks2 in thle face are healed by rubbing them with mandragora.3

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

ROMAN AUTHORS QUOTED.—C. Valgius,4 Pompeius Lennæus,5 Sextius Niger6 who wrote in Greek, Julius Bassus7 who wrote in Greek, Antonius Castor,8 Cornelius Celsus,9 Fabi- anus10

FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Theophrastus,11 Apollodorus,12 Peniocritus,13 Juba,14 Orpheus,15 Pythagoras,16 Mago,17 Menan- der18 who wrote the "Biochresta," Nicander,19 Homer,Hesiod,20 Musæus,21 Sophocles,22 Xanthus,23 Anaxilaüs.24

MEDICAL AUTHORS QUOTED.—Mnesitheus,25 Callimachus,26 Phanias27 the physician, Timaristus,28 Simus, 29 Hippocrates,30 Chrysippus,31 Diocles,32 Ophelion,33 Heraclides,34 Hicesius,35 Dionysius,36 Apollodorus37 of Citium, Apollodorus38 of Tarentum, Praxagoras,39 Plistonicus,40 Medius,41 Dieuches,42 Cleophantus,43 Philistion,44 Asclepiades,45 Crateuas,46 Petronius Diodotus,47 Iollas,48 Erasistratus,49 Diagoras,50 Andreas,51 Mnesides,52 Epicharmus,53 Damion,54 Sosimenes,55 Tlepolemus,56 Metrodorus,57 Solon,58 Lycus,59 Olympias 60 of Thebes, Philinus,61 Petrichus,62 Micton,63 Glaucias,64 Xenocrates.65

1 See R. xxiv. cc. 91, 93.

2 "Stigmata."

3 See c. 94 of this Book.

4 See end of B. xx.

5 40 See end of B. xiv.

6 See end of B. xii.

7 See end of B. xx.

8 See end of B. xx.

9 See end of B. vii.

10 For Fabianus Papirius, see end of B. ii.; for Fabianus Sabinus, sec ern of B. xviii.

11 See end of B. iii.

12 See end of B. xi.

13 See end of B. ii.

14 See end of B. v.

15 See end of 11. xx.

16 See end of B. ii.

17 See end of B. viii.

18 See end of B. xix.

19 See end of B. viii.

20 See end of B. vii.

21 See end of B. xxi.

22 See end of B. xxi.

23 A Lydian historian, anterior to Herodotus, of whom little is known with any degree of certainty. He probably flourished in the earlier part of the fifth century B. c.

24 See end of B. xxi.

25 See end of B. xxi.

26 See end of B. iv.

27 See end of B. xxi.

28 See end of B. xxi.

29 See end of 13. xxi.

30 See end of B. vii.

31 See end of B. xx.

32 See end of B. xx.

33 See end of B. xx.

34 See end of B. xii.

35 See end of B. xv.

36 See end of B. xii.

37 See end of B. xx.

38 See end of B. xx.

39 See end of L. xx.

40 See end of B. xx.

41 See end of B. xx.

42 See end of B. xx.

43 See end of 13. xx.

44 See end of B. xx.

45 See end of B. vii.

46 See end of B. xx.

47 See end of B. xx.

48 See end of B. xii.

49 See end of B. xi.

50 See end of B. xii.

51 See end of B. xx.

52 See end of B. xii.

53 See end of B. xx.

54 See end of B. xx.

55 See end of B. xx.

56 See end of B. xx.

57 See end of B. xx.

58 See end of B. xx.

59 See end of B. xii.

60 See end of B. xx.

61 See end of B. xx.

62 See end of B. xix.

63 See end of B. xx.

64 See end of B. xx.

65 See end of B. xx.

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