neck; but when the wound is in the leg, the medicine is to be applied to the groins, pubes, and the parts there. Baths, until the inflammation is on the decline, are to be abstained from, water not agreeing with these wounds, as we have said. But since some from habit cannot bear to want the bath, if the wounded part be the hand it must not, if possible, be wet in hot water, and still less in cold; but when the wound is in the foot, since it is impossible to preserve it from being wet, when about to go into the bath apply to the wounded part some of the plasters, and externally a compress consisting of many folds and moistened with oil; and again external to that a linen bandage; and after having done these things when the person affected is about to take his seat in the bath pour oil once more upon the bandage. When he comes out of the bath take away all those applications, and have recourse to the treatment described above. When there is only contusion of the nerve, if along with it there be contusion of the skin and ulceration, the cataplasm of the flour of beans and of oxymel will be a fit one, but you may add sometimes the flour of tares, and some iris; and when the contusion is attended with pain, you may mix a little liquid pitch with it. If there be no contusion of the skin, it will be more discutient to bathe frequently with an oil of a heating nature, I mean that of dill, of rue, of iris, or of marjoram. When the whole nerve is cut asunder no danger will result from it, but the part will be mutilated; and the treatment is to be conducted as in the case of other ulcers. The treatment of the wounds of nerves by simples is sufficient for accomplishing the whole cure, but some are in the practice of using compound applications in such cases, as the plaster from metals, those called barbarous, and the cissinum, that from groundsel, the melanchlorum, the indicum, harmonica, and athena, the composition of which, and the manner of using them you will find described in the Seventh Book. And since some very wealthy people are fond of using expensive applications to wounds of the nerves, Galen has described the following for punctures of the nerves: Of cinnamon, oz. j; of dittany, oz. j; of marum, oz. j; of amaracus, dr. ij; of wax, oz. viij; of opobalsam, oz. x; of turpentine, oz. x.—_Another_: of cyrenaic juice, oz. j; of wax, oz. iij; of opobalsam, oz. xij. This is an application for exposed nerves: Of wax used for ointments, oz. iij; of the ointment called spicatum, or foliatum, or that of nard, oz. xij; of washed pompholyx, oz. j; of spikenard, oz. j; of amomum, oz. j; of the leaf (malabathrum), oz. j. And these, Galen says, are superlatively excellent. * * * * *