On Medical Matters

...barley-water, or a decoction of mallow, or flaxseed, or fenugreek, or the roots of althea, which the Romans call hibiscus. And one must provide them with nitre with hydromel honeyed water to bring down and wash away those things that are still attached to the stomach and intestines; and if it is not relieved, one must evacuate them, injecting honeyed water with nitre, and provide wine or sweet wine, in which pine nuts and cucumber seeds have been crushed, or [mix it] with milk or honeyed water, or goose fat melted in sweet wine. The inflamed parts should be covered with a poultice of barley flour boiled with honeyed water. In the beginning, however, the applied poultices cause harm, because the heat generated by them detains the ingested poison and presses it upon the vital parts: but when time has passed, those applied to the most severe inflammations provide no small help, for they soothe and comfort the pains. Meanwhile, when the body has been pre-anointed with warming oil, it is appropriate to bathe it by lowering it into—

59. Thus Asulan; "to lick" Aldine.
60. Codex X: "having become chronic."
61. X: "those things relaxing the inflammations."

...bathing: for the cure of each one is to ensure that the harmful things attached to the body are excreted through the surface; and generally, in every way, one must stir up the excretions so that the condition does not take on a permanent structure. One should also give chicken and lamb meat, sucking pig and kid, and these should be fatty, very tender, and boiled with flaxseed; for they are easy on the bowels and dull the sharpness [of the poison]. And sweet wine, and plenty of it. It is also fitting in their case to use the bark of frankincense and the earth called aster, four drachmas of each, taken with sweet wine; also pennyroyal crushed with water, and iris-oil or rose-oil with a decoction of rue, and tender vine-shoots crushed with sweet wine; but most powerful of all in aiding are the antidotes, drunk with honeyed water in the quantity of four drachmas.

Chapter II. [Concerning the Pine Caterpillar.] To those who have taken the pine caterpillar, immediately pain arises around the mouth and the palate—