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CHAP. 89.—REMEDIES FOR WARTS. AND APPLICATIONS FOR THE REMOVAL OF SCARS.

Argemonia1 with vinegar, or root of batrachion,2 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,3 remove warts. All the varieties of tithy- malos4 are efficacious for the removal of every kind of wart, as also of hangnails5 and wens. Ladanum6 imparts a fresh colour and seemly appearance to scars.

(15.) The traveller who carries artemisia7 attached to his person, or elelisphacus,8 will never be sensible of lassitude, it is said.

1 See B. xxv. c. 56.

2 See B. xxv. c. 109.

3 See B. xxv. c. 18.

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

5 "Pterygia."

6 See B. xii. c. 37 and c. 30 of this Book.

7 See B. xxv. c. 81.

8 See B. xxii. c. 71.

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