The perspiration may be rendered fragrant by mixing the leaves of the
cypress, pounded dry, and the bark of the pine in the same ointment. One
ought also to remember in the morning, immediately after being dressed,
to taste a small quantity of cassia or savin.
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COMMENTARY. This is copied from Oribasius. (Synops. v, 21.) See also
Rhases (ad Mansor. v, 53.) Rhases recommends the heads of cardui for
food, and the seeds of juniper or cassia lignea in the drink. His advice
further is to rub the body with pastils of roses, and to drink aromatic
wine.