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[p. 140] Prurigo maior est: nonnumquam umor exit, sed non multus, qui referre vel pus vel saniem videtur.— In primis multa calida aqua fovendum est, in qua rapa decocta, aut si ea non sunt, aliquae verbenae ex reprimentibus. Si nondum adapertum ulcus, aes, quam maxime calidum quis pati potest, admovendum est. Si iam exulceratio est, imponi debet alumen aequa potione cum ture contritum vino adiecto, aut malicorium in aqua coctum deinde contritum. Si summa detracta pellicula est, hic quoque melius lenia medicamenta proficiunt. Struma quoque est tumor, in quo subter concreta quaedam ex pure et sanguine quasi glandulae oriuntur; quae vel praecipue fatigare medicos solent, quoniam et febres movent nec unquam facile maturescunt; et sive ferro sive medicamentis curantur, plerumque iterum iuxta cicatrices ipsas resurgunt multoque post medicamenta saepius; quibus id quoque adcedit, quod longo spatio detinent. Nascuntur maxime in cervice, sed etiam in alis et inguinibus ... lateribus: in mammis quoque feminarum se reperisse chirurgicus Meges auctor est.Propter haec et album veratrum recte datur, atque etiam saepius, donec ea digerantur, et medicamenta imponuntur, quae umorem vel educant vel dissipent, quorum supra (cap. XVIII, 1-7 A, 13 seqq.) mentio facta est. Adurentibus quoque quidam utuntur,
De Medicina. Celsus. W. G. Spencer. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition).
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