On Medical Matters

...a bath; for the remedy of each individual is that the harmful substances attached to the body may be excreted through the surface of the skin; and generally, one must stir up every kind of excretion, so that the disposition does not acquire a stable structure. Furthermore, one should provide meat from chickens and lambs, sucking pigs and kids, and these should be the fattest, most tender, and boiled with flaxseed; for they soften the bowel and dull the sharp substances. Wine also should be drunk rather freely. But it is also beneficial to use the bark of frankincense and the earth which is called aster, if four drachmas of each are taken with sweet wine. Likewise, pennyroyal crushed with water, and iris or rose [oil/ointment] with a decoction of rue, and tender vine-shoots crushed with sweet wine; but most powerful of all are the antidotes, drunk with four drachmas of honeyed water.

Chapter II. [Concerning Pine Caterpillars.] For those who have swallowed pine caterpillars, pain immediately arises around the mouth and palate—

62. "and lamb" is missing in Aldine.
63. Aldine: "to it."
64. The editions have the measure of 1 drachma, which has no relationship to the mass of earth and frankincense. Cornarius therefore suggested that 1 cotyla should be read. It could also be read as 4 cyathi from Scribonius Largus. But I think it better to omit the measure entirely with Paulus, since the measure of fluid is almost arbitrary.
65. Thus Aldine and Ruell; "to be decocted" Asulan and the rest. "[Ointment]" is missing in Aldine.

...a bath: and the cure of each one is that the harmful things which have adhered to the body may also be excluded through the surface of the skin. Generally, however, it is necessary to move every kind of excretion, so that the condition does not acquire a stable apparatus. Furthermore, meat of chickens and lambs, of sucking pigs and kids should be presented, and these should be especially fatty, very tender, and boiled with flaxseed: since they both soften the bowel and dull the sharp substances. Wine also should be drunk more liberally. But in addition, the bark of frankincense and the earth that is called aster is beneficial if four drachmas of each are taken with sweet wine. Also pennyroyal crushed in water, and iris or rose [ointment] with a decoction of rue, and tender vine-shoots crushed with sweet wine: but most powerfully of all, the antidotes are of assistance, drunk with four drachmas of honeyed water.

Chapter II. [Concerning Pine Caterpillars.] For those who have swallowed pine caterpillars, pain immediately arises around the mouth and palate.