Aristolochia[1530] cauterizes putrid sores, and, applied with honey, acts as a detergent upon sordid ulcers. At the same time also, it removes maggots, and extracts hard cores, and all foreign bodies adhering to the flesh, arrows more particularly, and, applied with resin, splintered bones. Used by itself, it fills the cavities made by ulcers with new flesh, and, employed with iris,[1531] in vinegar, it closes recent wounds. Vervain, or cinquefoil with salt and honey, is remedial for ulcers of long standing. Roots of persolata[1532] are applied to recent wounds inflicted with iron, but for old wounds, it is the leaves that are employed: in both cases, in combination with axle-grease, the sore being then covered with the leaves of the plant. Damasonium[1533] is used for wounds the same way as for scrofula,[1534] and leaves of verbascum[1535] are employed with vinegar or wine. Vervain is useful for all kinds of callosities or putrid sores; root of nymphæa heraclia[1536] is curative of running ulcers; and the same is the case with root of cyclaminos,[1537] either used by itself, or in combination with vinegar or honey. This last root is useful also for the cure of steatomatous tumours, and hyssop for that of running ulcers; an effect equally produced by peucedanum,[1538] a plant which exercises so powerful an influence upon fresh wounds, as to cause exfoliation even of the bones. The two varieties of anagallis[1539] are possessed of similar properties, and act as a check upon the corrosive sores known as “nomæ” and upon defluxions; they are useful also in cases of recent wounds, those of aged people in particular. Fresh leaves of mandragora,[1540] applied with cerate, are curative of apostemes and sordid ulcers: the root too is used, with honey or oil, for wounds. Hemlock, incorporated with flour of winter wheat[1541] by the agency of wine—as also the plant aizoüm[1542]—is curative of herpetic eruptions, and corrosive or putrid sores. Erigeron[1543] is employed for ulcers which breed maggots. Root of astragalus[1544] is used for the cure of recent wounds or of ulcers of long standing; and upon these last either kind of hypocisthis[1545] acts as a detergent. Seed of leontopodium,[1546] bruised in water and applied with polenta,[1547] extracts pointed weapons from the flesh: a result equally produced by using seed of pycnocomon.[1548] The tithyinalos characias[1549] supplies its juice for the cure of gangrenes, phagedænic sores, and putrid ulcers; or else a decoction is made of the branches with polenta and oil. Boots of orchis[1550] have a similar effect; in addition to which, applied, either dry or fresh gathered, with honey and vinegar, they are curative of the ulcer known as “cacoëthes.” Onothera[1551] also, used by itself, is curative of ulcers when rapidly gaining head.