340 NOTES

a balneologica!l commission of prominent citizens of Verona"'. It
is adialoguein classical Latin . . . '*without any tedious insistence
on the technical consideration of the spring itself^?.  /Caldiero is
8 miles from Verona on the line to Venice. Montanus, Consi/äa, 230,
237, 239, exhorts his patients to use the Chalderinian baths, Balnea
Chalderina. 'Their warm saline springs contain iodine; the water
is used for asthma and ulcers of the lungs and for fomentations.
Meunier translates 'nos bains de vapeur', an error followed by
Fossel, "unsere Warmbäder'; a confusion with the Latin caldaria,
warm. bath, from which of course the name of this spa was derived.

:** IResina Blemi from the East Indies and Bengal, used for
plasters and salves for ulcers.

:ï75 Cp. the popular remedy for toothache in England: Make a&
penny red hot, drop henbane seeds on it, cover with a small glass
to collect the fumes, apply the glass to the gum.

:719 Diversio in the medical sense is used, like the French *döriva—
tion', of the displacement of a morbid irritation by a medicament
('de6rivatif?). Burton uses 'averter' as the English equivalent.

'So The modern term C/&inws hypocistus is used of a parasite
(yellow flowers) which grows at the base (Greek, 6«r6) of the
* Mediterranean plant eistus; its astringent juice was formerly used
for hemorrhage. Fossel translates "Hypozist". But Pliny XXIII.
110, ealls the ealyx of the pomegranate flower cytinus (Greek,
K6ruos). / Meunier translates ^"Grenades", pomegranates, which
is perhaps correect, since Pliny says this cytinus was used, dried,
for the gums, ulcers of the mouth, tonsils etc. Dioscurides I. 97
$roxicT(s, refers to the parasitic plant. 8

ï5: Falloppius says that from about 1535 alopecia was one of
the symptoms of syphilis.  In the prescription that follows Meunier
misunderstood the symbol for 1$ and translates "5 onces'. Lada—
num (Dioscurides I. 97 X&öa»vor) is the gum—resin of a cistus;
Pliny XII. 73, XXV. 47; the best is from Cyprus; an anodyne, toxiec
etc.  Pomata was a preparation of apples or similar fruits.

:5: Juscus (moschus), the contents of the glandular pouch of
moschus moschiferus from the mts. of Central Asia, still used as
powder and tincture, but almost replaced by the cheaper camphor.

ï5s Pliny XXXII. 135 describes a number of psilotra. Here
Fracastorius seems to mean such salves, and not to refer directly
to the plant psilothrum described as 4AureAos ^ev«) (bryony) or
yv(NGO8por by Dioscurides IV. 182 who says that it is good for various
'^ skin affections and a& depilatory.

184 S(oechas in Pliny XXVII. 131; grows only in the Stoechades
islands (now Isles d' Hyöres); 'a bitter herb used for pains in the
chest and in antidotes". He echoes Dioscurides III. 26.  Perhaps
is stoechas lavandula, Linn., a& medicinal layvender.

55 Pliny XIX. 165 describes sa/ureia, used for seasoning, a sub—
stitute for marjoram; he gives several synonyms; possibly is Saturcia
hortensis, the common garden herb savory.