Pliny: Natural History, Volume VI, Books 20-23. (Loeb by Pliny, W. H. S. Jones
By Pliny, W. H. S. Jones
Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and author, is writer of the encyclopedic average background, in 37 books, an unequalled compendium of Roman wisdom. The contents of the books are as follows. ebook 1: desk of contents of the others and of specialists; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the identified international; 7: anthropology and the body structure of guy; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant items as utilized in medication; 28-32: clinical zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the fantastic arts, and gem stones. The Loeb Classical Library version of traditional historical past is in ten volumes.
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20-XII1. 24 X. Wild turnip grows chiefly in fields it is bushy, with a white seed, which is twice as big as that of For smoothing the skin of the face or the poppy. of the whole body it is used when mixed with equal parts of the meal of vetches, barley, wheat and lupins. The root is not good for anything. XI. The Greeks i-etain in pharmacology also two xanws. The one with angular leaf varieties of navews. stalks, and a flower like that of dill, called bunion, is beneficial for the purgings of women, for the bladder and for the urine, in the form of a decoction, drunk in hydromel, or in a drachma of the juice the seed, roasted and ground, taken in four cyathi of warm water, is good for dysentery.
An application of the pounded leaves with fresh cypress leaves, or of the fruit alone, roasted in a clay pot, reduced to powder and added to goose grease, is a cure for wounds. Moreover, when fresh, with shreds of its bark it cools gout and inflammations of the head, especially of babies, and erysipelas * by the appUcation to the part The affected of the same shreds, or of the seeds. juice from scrapings, mixed with rose-oil and vinegar, makes a Uniment which cools the heat of fevers. The dust of the dried fruit appUed to burns is wonderfuUy heaUng.
Fere omnes codd. three for tertians, four for quartans. hairy The legs, BOOK XX. and particularly harmful to cattle. is VI. E2-VIIT. r6 wound suppurating. The cucumber itself by its smell revives those who have fainted. When peeled and cooked in oil, vinegar and honey, cucumbers are, it is firmly held, more pleasant to the taste. \TI. There is also found a wild gourd, called by the Greeks aoii



