Common helps for venomous bites, and the Parthian four

Of the same: about various bites and strikes. Proper, then, toward both bites and strikes of the venomous animals are the things said before; common are these: iris drunk with vinegar, seed of paliurus or juice of myrtle with wine, cardamom likewise, or fruit of pear or of trefoil lock ounce unrestored, root of asphodel two staters and one keration with wine, juice of silphium or seed of barley, a drench of a decoction of poley, and centaury, dittany, castoreum, rue, sage, calamint, agnus. Toward these also plaster still with brans with vinegar, or wine, or radishes, or bulbs. These, then, many have already taken before, each praising by trial what is approved.

Toward these, one has someone drink juice of leek; another, having taken out the brain of a living hen, dissolving it in unmixed wine, held it out to the one in danger; another gave urine of a child mixed with wine itself; another, having split a mouse, set it on the strike and drew the venom up into the mouse. I prefer, of the many, the Parthian mystery which I set out toward both those bitten by rabid animals and those struck by scorpions, which is accomplished through four equals: myrrh, aristolochia, gentian, daphnis centaury. Having taken these on, then, and having rubbed them with wine and boiled them up, drench.

Easy to get are these: goat-milk by itself and given with five ounces of wine; frogs boiled with wine and drenched, toward all venomous things and toads. And southernwood, smooth, with wine; agaric likewise and fruit of agnus likewise; Ethiopian ammi and Italian cumin drenched with wine; ampeloprasion being eaten; the leaves of laurel, smooth, drenched with wine or water; or acorns of an oak being eaten fit, and fruit of a bedbug, root of mandrake with honey-milk. And leeches set on the bite help and draw. Goat-dung with oregano set on helps those struck by a beast, and dry dung of an elephant. And leaves of agnus being plastered; barley-meal likewise with lees of wine and harsh wine, or of the sea, being drenched abundantly, fit toward all venomous animals, as many as kill by chill.

A beast, then, of whatever kind it bite, having taken up its head set it on the bites and, having bound it on, you will heal without inflammation. Or having burnt the head that struck, set on the ash. Or having rubbed a root of drakontion, set it on the struck place, having scarified first.