Four-part drench for rabid bites and hydrophobia
Of Africanus: about those bitten by rabid animals and hydrophobes and remaining bites of creeping things. The present drench is composed of four ingredients: gentian, myrrh, round aristolochia, and daphnides. Cut these in equal parts and sift, taking them up with raw honey. The dose is the size of an Egyptian bean.
Give it to those bitten by snakes in water, to those struck by scorpions in first-rate wine, as a three-day dose.
Greek
3.21 Ἀφρικανοῦ· περὶ λυσσοδήκτων καὶ ὑδροφόβων καὶ λοιπῶν δηγμάτων ἑρπετῶν Ὁ παρὼν ἐγχυματισμὸς διὰ δʹ ἔχει τὴν σύστασιν· γεντιανῆς, σμύρνης, ἀριστολοχείας στρογγύλης καὶ δαφνίδων. Ταῦτα ἐξ ἴσου κόπτε καὶ σῆθε ἀναλαμβάνων μέλιτι ὠμῷ. Ἡ δόσις κυάμου Αἰγυπτιακοῦ τὸ μέγεθος. ∆ίδου δὲ ὀφιοδήκτοις ἐν ὕδατι, σκορπιοπλήκτοις ἐν οἴνῳ πρωτείῳ διάτριτον.