The Medicine of Pliny and Gargilius Martialis

and if the situation requires it, opened through a gentler treatment. Ash of cabbage root mixed with honey and applied suppresses them. Lupines boiled in vinegar and ground disperse them. Ash of the vitium perhaps a specific plant or weed applied with equal parts of wax and resin dries them out. Ash of murex shells murices sea snails with honey or shell-fish in honeyed wine is applied. Cuttlefish bones sepiae ossa cuttlefish bones pounded with old lard axungia lard or animal fat provide a cure. Flax seed pounded and mixed with honey mitigates them. Dried figs boiled in wine and ground are applied. Pigeon manure with barley flour and honey compresses them. The brain or liver of an owl infused with warm oil is applied to the ear affected by a parotid swelling. Centipedes mixed with a third part of resin are applied. Cimolian chalk a type of cleansing clay in vinegar dries them. Plantain plantago plantain leaf with old lard heals them completely. Bear fat is ground with an equal weight of bull suet and wax. They are treated with goat manure and lard. A viper’s head wrapped in a linen cloth and tied to the throat heals them.