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[p. 258]zare debet is fere, quae supra (cap. X, 3, 4) conprehensa sunt. Ac si lenia medicamenta in eo parum proficiunt, adhibenda sunt ea, quae adurendo crustas ulceribus inducant. Quale est scissile alumen vel chalcities vel atramentum sutorium. Prodest etiam fames et abstinentia quanta maxime inperari potest. Cibus esse debet lenis: ad purganda tamen ulcera interdum caseus ex melle recte datur.
12 Linguae quoque ulcera non aliis medicamentis egent, quam quae prima parte superioris capitis (11, 1.2) exposita sunt. Sed quae in latere eius nascuntur, diutissime durant; videndumque est, num contra dens aliquis acutior sit, qui sanescere saepe ulcus eo loco non sinit, ideoque levandus est.
13 Solent etiam interdum iuxta dentes in gingivis tubercula quaedam oriri dolentia: parulidas Graeci appellant. Haec initio leniter sale contritot perfricare oportet; aut inter se mixtis sale fossili combustio, cupresso, nepeta; deinde eluere os cremore lenticulae, inter haec hiare, donec pituita satis profluat. In maiore vero inflammatione iisdem medicamentis utendum est, quae ad ulcera oris supra (cap. XI) posita sunt: et mollis linamenti paulum involvendum ex iis aliqua compositione, quas antheras vocari dixi (cap. XI, 2), demittendumque id inter dentem et gingivam. Quod si † duriore id prohibebit extrinsecus admovendus erit spongia vapor calidus,
De Medicina. Celsus. W. G. Spencer. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition).
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