Clean spring-water three times; a donkey bears no lice
Of Africanus. To cast out the worms with unmedicated clysters, clean water is enough for me, taken in this manner: having drawn with the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, turned back, sprinkle the place sick with the worms three times with “unmuddied stream of a spring.” They will all come out following one another, nothing being left behind inside.
Of Africanus. That a donkey, of all the animals, bears neither lice nor ticks.
Greek
3.19 Ἀφρικανοῦ Τοὺς σκώληκας κλύσμασιν ἀφαρμάκτοις ἐκβαλεῖν ὕδωρ ἐμοὶ καθαρὸν ἀρκεῖ ληφθὲν τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον· ἀντίχειρι καὶ τῷ ἰατρικῷ δακτύλῳ χειρὸς εὐωνύμου ἀρυσάμενος ἐπεστραμμένως «ἀθολώτου νάματι πηγῆς» τὸν νοσοῦντα τοὺς σκώληκας τόπον τρὶς ῥᾶνον. Οἱ δὲ ἐξελεύσονται πάντες ἐφέποντες ἀλλήλοις, καταλειπομένου ἔνδον οὐδενός. 3. Ἀφρικανοῦ Ὅτι ὄνος ἁπάντων τῶν ζῴων οὔτε φθεῖρας οὔτε κρότωνας φέρει.