Miscellanies · §45 · Julius Africanus

Glue a great iron cut with the edible bulb

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To glue a wound without a suture. Since in war some, being wounded, the division from iron being great, are the more subdued by sutures, toward this we found a natural help able to glue without a suture. It is this: pound the bulb which we eat, set it on, and it will glue beside.

Greek

2.8 Πρὸς <τὸ> πληγήν τινα ἄνευ ῥαφῆς κολλῆσαι Ἐπείπερ ἐν πολέμῳ πολλάκις τινὲς τιτρωσκόμενοι, τῆς ἐκ σιδήρου διαιρέσεως μεγάλης οὔσης, ῥαφαῖς τὸ μᾶλλον δαμάζονται, πρὸς τοῦτο φυσικὸν ἐφεύρομεν βοήθημα, τὸ ἄνευ ῥαφῆς κολλῆσαι δυνάμενον· ἔστι δὲ τοῦτο· βολβὸν ὃν ἐσθίομεν λειώσας ἐπιτίθει, καὶ παρακολλήσει.

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