Dog-brain for a fracture: linen, wool, fourteen days
Of Africanus. A dog's brain calluses a fracture in fourteen days, smeared into a linen cloth and applied, with wool wound on from above.
Greek
3.16 Ἀφρικανοῦ Κυνὸς ἐγκέφαλος κάταγμα πωροῖ ἡμέρας ιδʹ εἰς ὀθόνιον ἐγχριόμενος καὶ ἐπιτιθέμενος, ἄνωθεν ἐρέας ἐπειλουμένης.
About this text
Julius Africanus, Cesti (Embroidered Girdles): a miscellany of history, science, and craft, in the surviving fragments — books 7, 2, and 3 in full, with parts of books 4, 8, 9, and 13, and the colophon of Cestus 18. The older English translates his letters only. The book-2 table of contents and a book-7 appendix are not in this volume.
New English from locked PG 10 / Khazarzar Greek of the Cesti fragmenta through 9.5. Earlier lemma-led scaffold English was discarded. Book-2 pinax and book-7 appendix held. This lock is exhausted.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 10 Cesti fragmenta (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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