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

Argemonia[1] 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- malos[4] are efficacious for the removal of every kind of wart, as also of hangnails[5] and wens. Ladanum[6] imparts a fresh colour and seemly appearance to scars.

(15.) The traveller who carries artemisia[7] 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.