The people of Scythia employ scythice[1552] for the treatment of wounds. For carcinoma, argemonia,[1553] applied with honey, is extremely efficacious. For sores that have prematurely closed, root of asphodel is boiled, in manner already[1554] stated and then beaten up with polenta,[1555] and applied. For all kinds of wounds apollinaris[1556] is very useful. Root of astragalus,[1557] reduced to powder, is good for running ulcers; the same, too, with callithrix,[1558] boiled in water. For blisters, more particularly when caused by the shoes, vervain is used, as also pounded lysimachia,[1559] or nymphæa[1560] dried and powdered; but when they have assumed the form of inveterate ulcers, polythrix[1561] will be found more serviceable. CHAP. 88.—POLYCNEMON: ONE REMEDY. Polycnemon[1562] is a plant which resembles cunila bubula;[1563] it has a seed like that of pennyroyal, a ligneous stem with numerous articulations, and odoriferous umbels, with a pleasant though pungent smell. This plant is chewed and applied to wounds inflicted with iron, the application being removed at the end of four days. Symphyton[1564] causes sores to cicatrize with the greatest rapidity; the same, too, with sideritis,[1565] which is applied in combination with honey. The seed and leaves of verbascum,[1566] boiled in wine and pounded, are used for the extraction of all foreign substances adhering to the body; and a similar use is made of leaves of mandragora[1567] mixed with polenta,[1568] and roots of cyclaminos[1569] with honey. Leaves of trixago,[1570] bruised in oil, are used for ulcers of a serpiginous nature more particularly, as also sea-weed bruised with honey. Betony, with the addition of salt, is employed for the cure of carcinomatous sores and inveterate blisters on the neck. CHAP. 89.—REMEDIES FOB WARTS, AND APPLICATIONS FOR THE REMOVAL OF SCARS. Argemonia[1571] with vinegar, or root of batrachion,[1572] removes warts; this last having the effect also of bringing off malformed nails. The juice or the leaves, applied topically, of either kind of linozostis,[1573] remove warts. All the varieties of tithymalos[1574] are efficacious for the removal of every kind of wart, as also of hangnails[1575] and wens. Ladanum[1576] imparts a fresh colour and seemly appearance to scars. (15.) The traveller who carries artemisia[1577] attached to his person, or elelisphacus,[1578] will never be sensible of lassitude, it is said. CHAP. 90.—REMEDIES FOR FEMALE DISEASES.