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CHAP. 93.—APPLICATIONS FOR THE HAIR. LYSIMACHIA. OPHRYS.

Lysimachia1 imparts a blonde tint2 to the hair, and the hypericon,3 otherwise called "corisson," makes it black. The same too, with ophrys,4 a plant with indentations, which re sembles the cabbage, but has only two leaves. Polemonia,5 too, boiled in oil, imparts blackness to the hair.

As for depilatories, I reckon them in the number of cosmetics, fit for women only, though men use them now-a-days. For this purpose archezostis6 is looked upon as highly efficacious, as also juice of tithymalos,7 applied with oil every now and then in the sun, or after pulling out the hairs. Hyssop, applied with oil, heals itch-scab in beasts, and side- citis8 is particularly useful for quinzy in swine.

But let us now turn to the remaining plants of which we have to speak.

SUMMARY.—Remedies, narratives, and observations, one thousand and nineteen.

ROMAN AUTHORS QUOTED.—M. Varro,9 C. Valgius,10 Pompeius Lenæus,11 Sextius Niger12 who wrote in Greek, Julius Bassus13 who wrote in Greek, Antonius Castor,14 Cornelius Celsus.15

FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Theophrastus,16 Democritus,17 Juba,18 Orpheus,19 Pythagoras,20 Mago,21 Menander22 who wrote the "Biochresta," Nicander,23 Homer, Hesiod,24 Musæus,25 Sophocles,26 Xanthus,27 Anaxilaüs.28

MEDICAL AUTHORS QUOTED.—Mnesitheus,29 Callimachus,30 Phanias31 the physician, Timaristus,32 Simus,33 Hippocrates,34 Chrysippus,35 Diocles,36 Ophelion,37 Heraclides,38 Hicesius,39 Dionysius,40 Apollodorus41 of Citium, Apollodorus42 of Tarentum, Praxagoras,43 Plistonicus,44 Medius,45 Dieuches,46 Cleophantus,47 Philistion,48 Asclepiades,49 Creteuas,50 Petronius Diadotus,51 Iollas,52 Erasistratus,53 Diagoras,54 Andreas,55 Mnesides,56 Epicharmus,57 Damion,58 Tlepolemus,59 Metrodorus,60 Solo,61 Lycus,62 Olympias63 of Thebes, Philinus,64 Petrichus,65 Micton,66 Glaucias,67 Xenocrates.68

1 See B. xxv. c. 35.

2 The most highly esteemed among the Romans of all colours of the hair.

3 See Chapter 53 of this Book.

4 The "eye-brow" plant. It is identified by Fée with the Ophrys ovata or bifolia of Linnæus, Ivy blade. The indentations in the leaves are almost imperceptible.

5 See B. xxv. c. 28.

6 See B. xxvi. c. 70.

7 See c. 39 of this Book, et seq.

8 See B. xxv. c. 19.

9 See end of B. ii.

10 See end of B. xx.

11 See end of B. xiv.

12 See end of B. xii.

13 See end of B. xx.

14 See end of B. xx.

15 See end of B. vii.

16 See end of B. iii.

17 See end of B. ii.

18 See end of B. v.

19 See end of B. xx.

20 See end of B. ii.

21 See end of B. viii.

22 See end of B. xix.

23 See end of B. viii.

24 See end of B. vii.

25 See end of B. xxi.

26 See end of B. xxi.

27 See end of B. xxv.

28 See end of B. xxi.

29 See end of B. xxi.

30 See end of B. iv.

31 See end of B. xxi.

32 See end of B. xxi.

33 See end of B. xxi.

34 See end of B. vii.

35 See end of B. xx.

36 See end of B. xx.

37 See end of B. xx.

38 See end of B. xii.

39 See end of B. xv.

40 See end of B. xii.

41 See end of B. xx.

42 See end of B. xx.

43 See end of B. xx.

44 See end of B. xx.

45 See end of B. xx.

46 See end of B. xx.

47 See end of B. xx.

48 See end of B. xx.

49 See end of B. vii.

50 See end of B. xx.

51 See end of B. xx.

52 See end of B. xii.

53 See end of B. xi.

54 See end of B. xii.

55 See end of B. xx.

56 See end of B. xii.

57 See end of B. xx.

58 See end of B. xx.

59 See end of B. xx.

60 See end of B. xx.

61 See end of B. xx.

62 See end of B. xii.

63 See end of B. xx.

64 See end of B. xx.

65 See end of B. xix.

66 See end of B. xx.

67 See end of B. xx.

68 See end of B. xx.

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