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τοῖσι δὲ ὑποχονδρίοισι καὶ τῇ κοιλίῃ ἐμβρέγματα , καὶ ἐπιπλάσματα, ἢν φλεγμονῇ καὶ σκληρίῃ ἐπαίρηται καὶ φύσῃ, ἔλαιον δρυπετοῦς ἐλαίης ἐμβάλλειν.I have partially adopted Ermerins' very extensive alterations of the text in this place. παχὺ γὰρ καὶ γλίσχρον καὶ ἀλεαῖνον. τόδε ὦν χρέος ἐν φλεγμασίῃ. ἐνηψήσθω δὲ ἐν αὐτῇ ἄνηθον, κόνυζα· ἀγαθὸν δὲ ὁμοῦ τὰ πάντα· ἢν δὲ καὶ φύση ἐνῇ, κυμίνου καὶ σελίνου τῶν καρπῶν ἠδὲ ὁκόσα οὔρων καὶ φυσέων ἀγωγά· καὶ νίτρον ἐνσείσαντα ἐμπάσσειν. ἢν δὲ τὸ ἧπαρ τὴν πεῖσιν καὶ τὴν ὀδύνην ἴσχῃ, ἔρια μὲν ἔστω οἰσύπῳ πιναρὰ ἀπὸ τῆς ὄϊος· ἔλαιον δὲ τὸ ἀπὸ τῆς ὄμφακος, ἢ Ῥόδινον· μίσγειν δὲ χρὴ σίραιον Ἑλληνικὸν, ἢ Κρῆτα, καὶ ἐνεψεῖν μελίλωτον, μίξαντά τε ἐς ἕνα χυλὸν τὰ πάντα καταιονεῖν τὸ ἧπαρ· σπληνὶ δὲ τὸ ἔλαιον σὺν ὄξεϊ ἔστω, ἢ εἰ μέζων ἢ πρὶν δοκέοι, ὀξύκρητον, καὶ ἀντὶ ἐρίων σπογγιὴ ἁπαλή. μάλα γὰρ τοῖσδε ὁ σπλὴν χαίρει τε καὶ πρηο̈́νεται. ἢν δὲ τὰ ὑποχόνδρια εἴσω ᾖ, ἠδὲ ἄνω εἰρύηται, καὶ τὸ δέρμα περιτείνηται, ἄριστον μὲν ἀντὶ τοῦ λίπαος, ἢ ξὺν αὐτέῳ, παχὺ πικέριον ἶσον.The common reading is πάχεϊ ἐπικαίριον, words of no meaning. Petit was the first to suggest πικέριον, on which see Foes' Oeconom. Hippocrat. in voce; also Erotian. κόνυζα δὲ ἔστω καὶ λιβανωτὶς τὰ ἐνεψήμα τα· καὶ ἄνηθον οὐκ ἀτερπές.
