Need suggestions…
I’ve been battling itchy skin since September. I started seeing a dermatologist in November who claimed it may be eczema or a psoriatic reaction from having celiac disease.
To me I feel like it can’t be a coincidence that these symptoms started soon after moving into a new apartment, where my bedroom is in the basement. I have two roommates who sleep two floors above me. Neither of them have experienced any of these symptoms.
I thought maybe it could be allergies so I even purchased an expensive air purifier and switched to free and clear detergent. I never use dryer sheets and I had previously used the same detergent my whole life.
Finally about 4 weeks ago I have a skin biopsy to get answers after steroid treatments weren’t curing it. The report claimed that it is NOT dermatitis or psoriasis but highly suggestive of bug bites. They used the term “arthropod” bites. My doctor’s recommendation was to have an exterminator come look at my apartment.
I thought I finally had answers until this week the exterminator comes and they don’t find anything. No fleas, no bed bugs, nothing. They checked my rugs, thoroughly checked my mattress etc. They left some glue traps but I have a feeling nothing will show up.
At the appointment where I gave the skin biopsy my doctor also examined scrapings and found no signs of scabies or other living parasites/bugs.
I’m desperate for answers. These bites start like tiny specs and eventually scab over from the itching. I am mildly itchy throughout the day but at night I notice it more. It’s been consistent for about 9 months now even with the treatment of topical steroids.

May seem like an odd question. Are fleas able to reproduce and live off of human blood? My cats are now treated with revolution. But before I notice that they were scratching or bothered by the fleas they have been multiplying through out my apartment. I vacuum daily and have sprayed Siphotrol 2000 on all the carpets and couches to help mitigate the issue.
Just curious if I’ll keep an infestation going if they continue to bite me.

Hello all. Every summer, my kitty (who is mostly white) gets really bad acne on his chin. I've spent the past two summers trying everything - I flea comb it, use various wipes I've been recommended, clean his metal food bowls every day. Once I even shaved his chin hair! Nothing helps at all. Then when fall hits, it just goes away!
He takes hydroxizine (an anti-histamine) that the vet gave him for overgrooming/bald spots which we thought were due to allergies. It did help the grooming/bald patches for a while but now that summer is arriving I'm noticing that's back too. (He also takes phenobarbital for epilepsy).
Any advice? He's been eating the same food for years so I don't think it's a food allergy since this issue only comes up in the summers.

Does anyone know of/ has taken a short course where they cover how to give an injection?
The reason I’m asking is I have a dog that has severe allergies and we have to take her every month to the vet for anti allergy injection.
She also has to have hypoallergenic food which is very expensive. She has a protein allergy. Which I know is absurd for a dog🤦‍♀️
I’m looking at whether I could buy the stuff she needs for her injection and learn to give it to her myself. Every time I go the vet it’s over R1000.
I know animals and humans are not exactly the same but I think the principals would be similar.
Any help is appreciated 😊

I'm nearly in tears trying to get my 2.5 year old health insurance. I was laid off in February and insurance that covered me and my son was canceled at the end of Feb. My son has more than 1 allergy, one of them being severe (hospitalization would be needed if exposed). I was told to apply for CHIP for him by his pediatrician's office and have had someone there helping me go through the process. She has been submitting the documents on our behalf to the PA Dept. of Human Services. I've been covered since April through Marketplace and in retrospect, should've just added my son to that plan but his pediatrician insisted CHIP was the best option for him.
Initially, he was approved for CHIP but we were visiting relatives and a notice came in the mail while we were gone giving us only ONE day to make the payment to start the coverage and when that one day came and went, his coverage was immediately terminated. The termination letter came 2 weeks later and we had no recourse to make the payment to reinstate. I have documentation to prove the ridiculous 1 day timeline and have called several people within the agency and they all agreed it was abnormal yet there was nothing they could do and I had to reapply. We're now a month in and his re-application is STILL pending. I got a notice yesterday that took 8 days to get to me requiring "proof of available health insurance 9/2023" by 5/26....wtf? Why would they need health insurance proof from a year ago when my layoff happened in 2024? This seems like an evil delay tactic impacting my small child the most and causing me so much stress.
Has anyone else gone through something similar? I feel helpless and don't know what to do and of course will send proof of insurance but something tells me that it's still not going to be the right document they're looking for...

I've noticed that there are a lot of us here with the same common sense issues around other people owning dogs and foisting them upon a public that not only does not want them but have very valid reasons for needing dogs to not be around them at all (allergies, fear, ptsd, just pain disgusted by them)
We need to start standing up and making the change we need to see. Dog owners are never going to self-regulate, they will stand against anything they see as limiting their pet rights (which are not protected rights)
Local governments and establishments have no idea what we're experiencing here, they may hear from a few reporters here and there but usually, we suffer in silence. This is a one way ticket to loser dog laws, they won't fix what they don't see as broken.
There are more than enough of us (and more join the party every day) that we should have a say. We need to bring this to the attention of the rule setters and law makers to ensure that our HUMAN rights outweigh pets and dogs in public human places.
I see more signs on doors saying absolutely no dogs. Local businesses have started losing business and started to pay fines due to dog owners and their bad unmaintainable behavior this means it's costing them money and they're feeling it. We need to put pressure on lawmakers to start passing laws on this that will actually protect our human rights, safety and mental wellbeing.
I have no idea how to organize this, I'm hoping that there are people here who can help and bring ideas on how to make our lives better
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I'm so depressed this morning- to be honest any kind words would be helpful too. We have two large dogs, but unfortunately not cats because I have some allergies, but mostly because we have two large dogs rescued as adults, so.
Now to why I'm so sad. We have a lot of wildlife in the area, and a few days ago, I discovered a (cottontail) bunny nest of absolutely newborn cottontails, they were so cute and perfect. Last year we found a nest remnant and a deceased young baby, so we thought potentially the dogs or a hawk maybe got the nest. So this year we were determined it would not go that way, and thrilled we found the nest first. We set up a camera, watched it closely, and took the dogs out front on leash a million times a day instead of letting them out back because the mother rabbit seemed perturbed by the bunny friendly fencing around the nest. We've been really invested, and watching the cam constantly.
They were gone this morning, which we knew meant deceased, at their age. The cam shows a cat entering the fenced in backyard, somehow beelining to the nest, and yeah it's clear what happened then. Every single one.
I know the cat was just doing what was natural for her, but I'm so depressed and I can't do this every summer. I don't want to. I also don't want her coming into our fenced yard because it's not safe. I have no idea how my dogs would react. Also, I know some cats just will not be indoor cats, but this is a terrible area for an outdoor cat, especially at night. There are skunks and raccoons everywhere. Not sure what to do. We even believe there was a badger (maybe possum) that was bold enough to hiss and charge my husband once. Not a good place for a cat at night. Not to mention the ecosystem.
What can I do? Does anyone know a trick with rabbit nests that allows the mom in but not a cat? I can't think of how the heck that would be, surely the cat could just reach her paw in. Is there anyway to keep her out of the yard for her safety most of all since all nests are now gone? Should I post on next door and let whomever her owner is know she's endangering herself and eating wildlife that can also endanger her? Unsure what else to do. Leave a humane trap with meat next time near the nest so I catch her is she comes by? Idk.

I have a 7 year old cockapoo that I've owned since I was in highschool. I jumped through insermontable hoops just to convince my mom to get him. A little back story on the relationship with my mom since it's relevant to the story: Our house has never been a stable home. My expectations were high and my capabilities did not always meet the mark. I was a troublemaker in response to my newly found spot as a black sheep. She had moved to a new city just to give me more opportunities for college and school which I appreciated but it made me very lonely as I no longer had the energy to make friends on the 4th move within 3 years. Getting a puppy was all I've wanted for a long time and it seemed like the most logical option for companionship. I begged and cried for my now 7 year old cockapoo. Looking back he was always problematic but I loved him like my own child. No matter how many puppy socialization classes we took to or how many environments we tried, we just could not get him to shake his crippling fear of other dogs. As time passed his fear of humans subsided but he has been having persistent issues with allergies and his behind area in general from inflamed anal glands constantly to needing an emergency neuter because he would shake with fear from being handled due to the pain the vets insisted they were causing. I've pushed past all this and he's been my ride or die. He went off with me to college overseas and he was the only one I had a times in my darkest moments. He's been around the world with me. The tides of our relationship began to shift around when my relationship with my mother took a downward spiral. Even so with our relationship in shambles she suggested getting a new puppy would bring some happiness and fun to the house. It has been anything but that. Our new puppy, a cockapoo from the same bloodline is 8 months old now. My mother has been completely hands off in his training and handling as she already stated she would but initially agreed to cover his finances. Until she changed her mind. I've come home from studying overseas as it wasn't working out and I just want to restart my life and focus on my education. My mom, who has distanced herself from me entirely even though we live in the same house, has made handling these two dogs my worst nightmare. My oldest dog typically despises the puppy, snarling and growling when he's close, violently flinching if he makes any sort of contact with him. He even directs his aggression to me if the puppy is upsetting him, biting me if I try to redirect his attention or even just accidentally touch him. No matter how many vets I go to they never do anything to alleviate his obvious physical symptoms and irregularities compared to his prior behavior. And to top it all off my mostly carpet house is riddled with pee from when the puppy was being potty trained. I tried so many methods (enzyme cleaners, home solutions, steam vacuums) for getting up as much pee as I could and nothing seems to work. My room reeks. The hallway reeks. I thought my puppy would never be potty trained because of it. I recently took him on a vacation and to my surprise he didn't have a single accident. But not shockingly enough, the moment we got back and I mean this quite literally, he went to go pee on the carpet. My mom has ignored all my bids to get a professional carpet cleaner. Our relationship is currently irreparable and I'll be moving to my dad's house in a matter of weeks. My dad has made it clear that they will continue to be my sole responsibility if I bring them but he doesn't mind them being here. However my dad has two young boys who are rambunctious as young boys are, my concern is how on earth as a college student working a part time summer job will I fund the vet visits and training of my newly aggressive adult dog while managing the costs of the puppy I will now have to take on. I need to fund my own mental health treatment as well. I daydream about my dogs being with other owners and never having made a bond with them because realistically rehoming them will tear me apart. I can barely travel and live my own life because I have 0 help with them and no community. I need guidance and advice because no one in my life is willing to give any let alone actively help.

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This post is divided in two, first up I’ll discuss the benefits of Dietary Restrictions for the game, after that, I’ll point out the Dietary Restrictions I play with at my table, I might make another post with more races than just the ones I point out here.
Also, “Making PCs Part of the World” is a type of post I wish to keep making, here’s my previous post: Making PCs Part of the World: Exploring Backstories Through Memories

How Dietary Restrictions Improve Immersion

Imagine you’re at a dining table with your friends, don’t you make fun of the vegan one sometimes? Or the one allergic to nuts? As a vegetarian, I find myself having to explain my dietary choices to a bunch of friends and strangers alike. So if it’s almost like a personality trait in real life why shouldn’t it be the same in game.
I recently DMed Out Of The Abyss, and there wasn’t much flavor while the characters where imprisoned, so learning about the NPCs and each other through their diets was actually quite refreshing and a fun thing to RP.
I think it could add a bit of spice to bland situations, especially in the beginning of campaigns, or when meeting new characters, as it will give away some of that person’s personality traits. Someone as an allergy, that could hint they’re frail; no veggies? picky or spoiled; bird meets? healthy or conscious; etc…

Dietary Culture by Race (At my table)

Dwarves prefer high-heat cooking and smoking, with their cuisine centering around mushrooms, and roots to cook deep-flavored stews. On top of that, I don’t think Dwarves ever developed a taste for sweet foods.
I think above-ground Elves are primarily vegetarian, as they primarily live off the forest without damaging it. Elves prefer a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes. Elves aren’t incapable of meat consumption but avoid it. I also think they’ll have a pretty developed pallet.
The Drow, on the other hand, are restricted to the subterranean and therefore limited to fungi, mosses, insects, and monster meat. Because of these restrictions, the Dow tend to prefer their meals a bit bitter and spicy.
Halflings love their agriculture and prefer their food raw. But Halflings aren’t limited to vegetables and fruits, milk, wild roots, fish, and wild mushrooms are also part of a Halfling’s diet.
Orcs are omnivores but greatly favor game meat, with an underdeveloped sense of taste. Orcs also consume bones in times of need.
Dragonborn, prefer protein-rich meals, this doesn’t necessarily mean meat though. Milk, eggs, fish, if it has protein then they want it. Additionally, Dragonborn aren’t opposed to eating vegetables as long as they offer medicinal value or flavor to the meal.
Gnomes love sweets, but egg dishes, green vegetables, fruits, nuts, and grains are also staples of their cooking. Because of their preference of sweet dishes, gnomes tend to react negatively to bitter, spicy overly salty foods.
Tieflings are much like humans but tend to prefer red meats a tad more.
REMEMBER that in addition to their races’ culinary culture, each PC is different and should have their own eating habits, preferences, and restrictions.
Thank you for reading.

I'm pretty sure one of them is a food tech sub.....

Wtf????!!!!

Brothers chaotic marriage
TLDR my brother married a psychotic girl who abandoned her kids multiple times and had a sick dick and side chick
My brother married an actual psychopath. My brother (40) married the scummiest scum of the earth. Who can only be described as a whore, a psycho, sociopath and an all around terrible human being. It was against the wishes of EVERYONE.
For back story…She had a child by another man… and only had him to live off the government. My brother met the stray hoe took care of her and her unborn child. They started dating in september and by christmas she had drained his bank account. She had her son in November. He moved in with her days after christmas. Proposed. And got married sometime between march and june i honestly can not be bothered to know exactly when. The night before brother was admitted to the er for staph infection in his berries.
After the “wedding” that was in the back yard of some pastor . they had a “reception”. Where i photographed/observed the following. A used tampon on washing machine. Shit filled diapers littering the nursery. A surreal amount of clothing on the bed. I said nah im good. And went home. Eventually she got my brother to legally adopt her child. Im forever convinced if not for my brother she would casey anthony her child.
She Munchausened her kid and my brother. Self diagnosing the kid with autism. Pushed or made my brother fall and get multiple concussions. Drugged him with date rape drugs to keep control of him. She was a frequent flier to the ER going to the emergency room for unnecessary reasons.
She refused to parent her child insisting that its the worlds job to teach him the bare minimum. She refused to clean as well. Her cockroaches had cockroaches. Cleanliness was mental illness for her. She kicked my brother out asking for divorce. But realized she had to leave bc he paid the bills. She stayed with whoever the hell would take her. Was forced to walk wherever she needed to go. And uttered the words “well i had to walk in the rain so theres my bath for the week” after growing tired of not having his car and money she came crawling back.
She avoided parenting like the plague. Every excuse. Uti. Migraine. Yeast infection. Its a tuesday. When her son was 2 she left to go to another state and go to school for being a truck driver. Had no qualms of leaving her kid behind for weeks. Then she dropped out of 18 wheeler school. It seems the wheels on her bus fell off.
For someone who doesnt believe proper hygiene was important she didnt believe bathing him and basic care was important. Feet encrusted in dirt and dirt under overgrown nails. It was so noticeable that when i cut his nails his teacher made comment about it. Her family was just as absent as you would expect. Her mother only went to the first birthday party when the child was 6. And didnt even know her own grandchild. Asked another child at the party if he had the best birthday! My mom looked at her and said “yeaaa thats the wrong kid…”
When the first born was 7, she birthed her second. This had no change and her parenting never improved. Another child encrusted in dirt.
When the youngest was a year and a half my brother had knee surgery and stayed with us (me mom dad) to recover because she would have made him cook clean and parent. While he was healing for the week he was there she moved in her boyfriend AND girlfriend. By the way she not only a hoe she is a promiscuous hoe with no moral compass. I promised my mom id never call CPS however when the second was 2 i had a friend call cps. Like a special ops team, cops went in at 2 am and gathered the children and brought them to me and my parents.
We had the 2 year old and a friend of the hoe had the 8 year old. For 2 weeks my brother agonized over his kids being taken. And she had a vacation. She treated it as if having your kids repo’ed as a right of passage. Told the world. Told the teacher. And had the time of her stupid life. In the 2 weeks i had them i had minions collecting screenshots of statuses of her being a bad mother. Which was super easy bc every thought made it to facebook. Such as. “My dentist suggested i brush my teeth at least once a day” “i guess i was doing (brother) with the wrong meds and made him sick” “why dont grandparents raise our children” i gathered these gems and photographic evidence of the state of the house and cleanliness of children to cps, police and eventually divorce lawyer.
During their time together the hoe broke my brother mentally spiritually emotionally physically financially. The food stamps ran out in the first week of every month spent on junk soda and unnecessary nonsense. They had to ask my mother for money that accumulated to the tune of $10,000 over 10 years. She is also a gofundme whore. She would start a gofundme 10-12 times a year for any and everything. She decided at one point to go back to school and did an amazon wishlist for school supplies and a gofundme for “gas food and other expenses”.
Being the trash human she is she is friends with people of unsavory character. An actual crack head bought her entire amazon wishlist. Which she put on facebook. Yikes. At one point she found a dog and instead of finding the owner she finders keepers that poor pup. Making yet another gofundme for dog expenses. I told my friends i would paaaay them to claim the dog as theirs so my mother didnt pay for yet another mouth to feed. If youre curious about the gofundmes and if they were ever fruitful… when a bull milks a calf will her gofundme work.
The final year of their marriage was no less chaotic. The christmas of 2019 she posted on facebook that its so wonderful that her husband is out working and her boyfriend is sleeping next to her and her girlfriend is cooking. Tagging the aforementioned on facebook. My brother was humiliated because infront of church members family and friends his marriage and all the stupidity that came with it was out in the open for all to judge.
My brother was at the time a corrections officers and let his kind nature and naivety get him in trouble. A person asked him to take some taco bell to an inmate and in what could only be called a moment of stupidity (sorry mom) he did so. what he didnt know is they put drugs in it and when it was scanned he was arrested. My mom and dad had to bail him out took him home and around 3 am he called me “they voted me out” beyond confused i asked what the hell does that mean? As it turned out. Hoe boyfriend and girlfriend unanimously voted him out of the house. Mind you. Single wide trailer housing 4 adults 2 kids a dog and cats and a turtle. June of 2020 he moved back in a month later the children followed.
After the actual breadwinner left the house the unemployed baboons could not pay the rent and were kicked out. The three went down to two with the girlfriend being let go. Hoe and boyfriend moved in with her mother. And boyfriend wrecked the car in my brothers name. Dui and head on collision. Car gone!
The children stayed with us. The youngest was 2 at the time and began calling my mom “mommy” which pissed off the hoe. And she never contacted them.
At the hearing for the divorce she stated all she wanted out of the relationship was not money or visitation. But her maiden name back. TAKE IT. AND LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE. She also used a photo of her kids on a gofundme to get sympathy and posted that to a fetish website. Seeing as the photo was them shirtless i believe that was on purpose. She dumped boyfriend and found a new love in new hampshire. She was in NH for 8 months with her new boyfriend and he lost his job so they moved back down.
After a summer of no contact she called and told the children “when i get home we are going to….” And listed about 10 events places and activities to look forward to. None of which she delivered on. After not spending time with them again and choosing to give up her weekend with them to play video games for 30 HOURS STRAIGHT. She eventually in 2024 decided that her and her boyfriend were moving to Massachusetts. Seeing how she is a practicing witch my only hope is the salem witch trials reconvene. She married the dude she abandoned her kids for.
On mothers day the children who no longer give a damn she exists were forced to call and tell her happy mothers day. Where the 6 year old proceeded to tell her the older brother got a phone and didnt wanna give her his number. She assured him that as his mother its quite alright to give mommy dearest the number to which the youngest said yea no he doesnt want to. The mouths of babes. She cried and posted on facebook not only do her children hate her but she had to give up her cats too. And wished the “real mom’s of the world a happy mothers day” shes a shit cat mom too!
A week ago, we had spaghetti for dinner and the 6 year old said “i never used to like spaghetti. I only tried it at… whats her names house? Jordan? Yea her house”
With their father engaged to a good Godly woman with morals and standards the worst mother to ever mother has been replaced and so far we are all living happily ever after. The moral of the story is if you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas what if you lay down with whores end up with bedbugs and that was a very costly moral
Edit to add: they had come over one day and someone called asking for my mom. And they heard the hoe speak. Asked if mom couldnt come to the phone bc of company. I said nah thats just my brother and his first wife. This was 6 months into marriage 😂

I’ve owned cats all my life and this is the FIRST time one of them has developed a horrible rash with a flea collar!
My sweet Luna (1F) has escaped three times (she’s spayed) and last time I caught her I put a flea collar on her and her siblings. I was especially worried for my boy (5M) because he has long hair and is averse to brushing.
I’ve just seen that Luna had a horrible rash! It’s not all around her neck, but it’s bad enough that it stripped her fur away! I heard her sneezing a lot two days ago and since she’s always getting into something I thought she had smelled something strange and was reacting to that.
A frantic Google search after finding the rash (and getting the collars off all three cats) says it’s an allergy. I washed her neck against her will, and now she’s hiding.
It’s almost 1am here and I can’t go to emergency. She’s alert, playful and hadn’t complained about a single thing! How would I have known! 😭😭😭
Until I can get her to the vet in Friday (payday,) what can I do to soothe her skin and prevent an infection?

NICANDER, 'ALEXIPHARMACA' The Greek text of the 'Alexipharmaca' can be found on the Poesia Latina website.
Even though the peoples from whom you and I, Protagoras, have derived our births did not set up the walls of their strong towers side by side in Asia, and a great space separates us, yet I can easily instruct you in the remedies for those draughts of poison which attack men and bring them low. You indeed have made your home by the tempestuous sea beneath bossy Arctus, where are the caverns of Lobrinian Rhea and the place of the secret rites of Attes; while I dwell where the sons of the far-famed 10 Creusa divided among themselves the richest portion of the mainland, settling by the tripods of Apollo in Clarus.
You must, to be sure, learn of the aconite, bitter as gall, deadly in the mouth, which the banks of Acheron put forth. There is the abyss of the Wise Counsellor {Hades} whence few escape, and there the towns of Priolas fell crashing in ruins.
All the drinker's jaws and the roof of his mouth and his gums are constricted by the bitter draught, as it wraps itself about the top of the chest, crushing with evil choking the man in the throes of heartburn. The top of the belly is gripped with pain - 20 the swelling, open mouth of the lower stomach, which some call the 'heart' of the digestive vessel, others the 'receiver' of the stomach - and the gate is closed immediately upon the beginning of the intestines where a man's food in all its abundance is carried in. And all the while from his streaming eyes drips the moisture; and his belly sore shaken vainly throws up wind, and much of it settles below about his mid-navel; and in his head is a grievous weight, and there ensues a rapid throbbing beneath his temples, and with his eyes he sees things double, like a man at night overcome with unmixed wine. 30 And as when the Silens, the nurses of the horned Dionysus, crushed the wild grapes, and having for the first time fortified their spirits with the foaming drink, were confused in their sight and on reeling feet rushed madly about the hill of Nysa, even so is the sight of these men darkened beneath the weight of evil doom. This plant men call also Mouse-bane, for it utterly destroys troublesome, nibbling mice ; but some call it Leopard's-choke, since cowherds and goatherds with it contrive the death of those great beasts 40 amid the glades of Ida in the vale of Phalacra. Again they name it Woman-killer and Crayfish. And the deadly aconite flourishes amid the Aconaean mountains.
For one so poisoned gypsum to the weight of a handful will perhaps be a protection, if you draw thereto tawny wine in due measure with the gypsum reduced to fine powder - let it be a full cotyle of wine - and add stalks of wormwood, cutting them from the shrub, or of bright green horehound which they call Honeyleaf; administer also a shoot of the herbaceous, evergreen spurge-olive and rue, quenching in vinegar and honey 50 a red-hot lump of metal between the jaws of the fire-tongs, or dross of iron which the flame of the fire has separated within the melting-pot in the furnace; or sometimes just after warming in the fire a lump of gold or silver you should plunge it in the turbid draught. Or again you should take leaves, half a handful's weight, of the ground pine; or a dry sprig of pot marjoram from the hills, or cut a fresh spray of field basil, and cover them in four cyathi of honey-sweet wine. Or you may take some broth, still meaty and undiluted, made from a domestic fowl 60 when the forcible glow of the fire beneath the pot reduces the body to pieces. Also you should render down the fresh meat of an ox abounding in fat and satisfy the stomach to its full capacity with the soup. Again, sometimes you should pour the juice of balsam into some drops of milk from a young girl, or else into water, until the patient discharges from his throat the undigested food. Sometimes too you should cut out the curd from the stomach of the nimble beast that sleeps open-eyed {hare}, or of a fawn, and give it mixed in wine; at other times cast the roots of the purple mulberry into the hollow of a mortar, 70 bray them mingled with wine, and give them boiled in the labours of the bee. Thus may you ward off loathsome sickness though it threaten to master a man, and he may once again walk on unfaltering feet.
In the second place consider the hateful brew compounded with gleaming, deadly white lead whose fresh colour is like milk which foams all over when you milk it rich in the springtime into the deep pails. Over the victim's jaws and in the grooves of the gums is plastered an astringent froth, and the furrow of the tongue turns rough on either side, 80 and the depth of the throat grows somewhat dry, and from the pernicious venom follows a dry retching and hawking, for this is severe; meanwhile his spirit sickens and he is worn out with mortal suffering. His body too grows chill, while sometimes his eyes behold strange illusions or else he drowses; nor can he bestir his limbs as heretofore, and he succumbs to the overmastering fatigue.
Give the patient at once a cupful of oil of the Premadia- or Orchis- or Myrtle- olive, so that the stomach being lubricated may void the evil drug; 90 or else you may readily milk the udder's swelling teat and give it him; but skim the oily surface from the draught. And you may infuse sprigs or leaves of the mallow in fresh sap and dose the sufferer with as much as he can take. Or again pound sesame seeds and administer them also in wine; or else heat and cleanse in water the ashes of vine twigs, and strain the lye through the interstices of a newly woven basket, for this will retain the sediment. Moreover if you rub down the hard stones of the persea in gleaming olive oil, they will ward off injury - 100 the persea which once on a time Perseus, when his feet bore him from the land of Cepheus and he had cut off the teeming head of Medusa with his falchion, readily made to grow in the fields of Mycenae (it was a recent gift of Cepheus) on the spot where the scabbard-chape of his falchion fell, beneath the topmost summit of Melanthis, where a Nymph revealed to the son of Zeus the famed spring of Langeia. Or else you should break up in roasted barley the sap which congeals upon the frankincense bushes of Gerrha; also as helpful you should dissolve in warm water the tears from the walnut-tree or from the plum or those which ever drip in plenty on the elm-twigs, 110 and drops of gum, so that he may vomit up part of the poison, and part render wholesome as he yields to the hot water when the sweat moistens his body. And again he might sate himself with a meal which he has taken or with strong wine and so escape an inglorious death.
When a liquid smells of the corn-eating blister-beetle, that is to say, like liquid pitch, refuse it, for on the nostrils it weighs like pitch and in the mouth like freshly eaten berries of the juniper. Sometimes in a weak infusion these creatures produce a biting sensation upon the lips, 120 or again deep down about the mouth of the stomach; at other times the middle of the belly or the bladder is gnawed and seized with griping pains, while discomfort attacks men where the cartilage of the chest rests over the hollow of the stomach. And the victims are distressed in themselves: swooning delusions hold in bondage what is human in them, and the victim is brought down unexpectedly by pain, like the freshly scattered thistledown which roams the air and is fluttered by every breeze.
At times administer to the patient doses of pennyroyal mixed with river water, making a posset of them in a mug. 130 This was the rich draught of the fasting Deo; once with this did Deo moisten her throat in the city of Hippothoōn by reason of the unchecked speech of Thracian Iambe. At other times take from your pot and mix with the round seeds of flax a rich draught brewed from the head of a hog or of a lamb or from the horned head of a goat which you have but lately cut off, or even, maybe, from a goose, and give it until the man is sick; and let him by tickling his throat stir up in the gullet below the entire mass of polluted food still undigested. At times you should draw the fresh milk of a sheep in a clyster-pipe, 140 administer a clyster and so empty the useless faeces from the bowel. At another time a draught of creamy milk will help the sufferer; or you should lop the green tendrils of the vine when they are fresh-burdened with leaves and chop them up in grape-syrup; or take from crumbling soil the ever sting-shaped roots of scorpius and steep in the bees' produce. The plant grows high like asphodel but sheds its stalks when withered. Also you should take four drachmas' weight of Parthenian earth which Phyllis brings forth under her mountain-spurs, 150 the snow-white earth of the Imbrasus which a horned lamb first revealed to the Chesiad Nymphs beneath the rush-grown river-banks of snowcapped Cercetes. Or brew a drink of boiled-down must of twice that quantity, and into it shred some sprigs of rue, kneading the herbs with rose-oil, or sometimes soak it in iris-oil, which has often cured an illness.
If however a man thoughtlessly taste from loathsome cups a draught, deadly and hard to remedy, of coriander, the victims are struck with madness 160 and utter wild and vulgar words like lunatics, and like crazy Bacchanals bawl shrill songs in frenzy of the mind unabashed. To such a case you should administer a cupful of hedanian wine, 'Pramnian', unmixed, just as it gushed from the vat. Or cast a cupful of salt into water and let it dissolve. Or else you should empty the fragile egg of a chicken and mix with it the sea-foam upon which the swift petrel feeds. It is with this that it sustains life, and also meets its doom, when the fishermen's destructive children assail with their tricks the swimming fowl; and it falls into the boys' hands as it chases the fresh and whitening surge of foam. 170 Do you also draw from the bitter, violet-hued sea - the sea, which, with fire too, the Earth-Shaker has enslaved to the winds. For fire is vanquished by hostile blasts: the undying fire and the expanse of waters tremble before the north-west winds; though the unruly sea, swift to anger, lords it over ships and over the men who perish in it, while to the rule of the abhorred fire the forest is obedient. Again, common oil mingled with wine or a drink of grape-syrup mixed with snow will stay the pain, 180 what time the reapers with their pruning-hooks lop the heavy, wrinkled vintage of the hedanian and the psithian vine and crush it, while with a humming sound bees and the tree-wasp, wasps and buzzers from the hills fall upon the grapes and feast their fill of sweetness, and the mischievous fox ravages the richer clusters.
Take note too of the noxious draught which is hemlock, for this drink assuredly looses disaster upon the head bringing the darkness of night: the eyes roll, and men roam the streets with tottering steps and crawling upon their hands; 190 a terrible choking blocks the lower throat and the narrow passage of the windpipe; the extremities grow cold; and in the limbs the stout arteries are contracted; for a short while the victim draws breath like one swooning, and his spirit beholds Hades.
Give the patient his fill of oil or of unmixed wine until he vomit up the evil, painful poison ; or prepare and insert a clyster ; or else give him draughts of unmixed wine, or cut and bring him twigs of sweet bay or bay of Tempe 200 (this was the first plant to crown the Delphian locks of Phoebus) ; or else pound some pepper with nettle seeds and administer them, or again infuse wine with the bitter juice of silphium. Sometimes you may offer him a measure of scented iris-oil and silphium shredded in with gleaming oil. Also give him a draught of honey-sweet grape-syrup, and a foaming vessel of milk which you have slightly warmed over the fire.
There are even means of promptly averting the oppression caused by deadly arrow-poison, when a man is overcome with anguish from drinking it. First, his tongue begins to thicken from the root 210 and weighs upon the lips which are heavy and swollen about the mouth; he suffers from a dry expectoration, and his gums break open from the base. Often too his heart is smitten with palpitations, and it is his fate that all his wits are stunned and overthrown by the evil poison; and he makes bleating noises, babbling endlessly in his frenzy; often too in his distress he cries aloud even as one whose head, the body's master, has just been cut off with the sword; or as the acolyte with her tray of offerings, Rhea's priestess, appearing in the public highways on the ninth day of the month, raises a great shout with her voice, while the people tremble 220 as they hearken to the horrible yelling of the votary of Ida. Even so the man in his frenzy of mind bellows and howls incoherently, and as he glances sidelong like a bull, he whets his white teeth and foams at the jaws.
You must even bind him fast with twisted ropes and make him drunk with wine, with gentle force filling him to satiety even against his will; then force his gnashing teeth apart in order that under your mastering hand he may vomit up the deadly stuff. Or divide up and boil till soft over a bright fire the young gosling of a free-feeding goose; 230 you should also give him the wild fruit of the rough-barked apple-tree grown upon the hills after cutting off the inedible parts; or even those kinds that pertain to the fields, such as the spring seasons bring forth for girls to sport with; or again pear-quinces, or else the famed fruit of the grim Cydon, which Cretan torrents have fostered. Or sometimes, after sufficiently pounding all these with a mallet, you should soak them in water and then throw in some fresh and fragrant pennyroyal and stir in together with apple-pips. Also you may soak up some fragrant rose-oil or iris-oil into wool 240 and let it drip into his parted lips. Yet hardly may a man after countless sufferings at the end of many days launch with safety his unsteady steps, while his startled gaze roams this way and that. This is the poison with which the nomads of Gerrha and they who plough their fields by the river Euphrates smear their brazen arrow-heads. And the wounds, quite past healing, blacken the flesh, for the stinging poison of the Hydra eats its way in, while the skin, turning putrid with the infection, breaks into open sores.
But if a man taste the loathsome fire of Colchian Medea, 250 the notorious meadow-saffron, an incurable itching assails : his lips all over as he moistens them, such as comes upon those whose skin is defiled with the snow-white juice of the fig-tree or by the stinging nettle or by the many-coated head of the squill, which fearfully inflames the flesh of children. But if he retain the poison, there settles in his gullet a pain which at first eats into it and presently lacerates it from below with desperate retching as he disgorges the poison from his throat; and at the same time the belly also voids the polluted scourings, even as a carver pours off the turbid water in which the meat was washed.
260 Now sometimes you should cut and administer the crinkled leaves of the oak, or else those of the Valonia oak together with the acorns; or you should draw fresh milk in a pail and then let the man swallow his fill of the milk after retaining it in his mouth. At times to be sure shoots of knot-grass will help, or else the roots boiled in milk. You should also infuse vine-tendrils in water, or equally well shoots of bramble which you have chopped. Further, you should strip the green hulls of a well-grown chestnut-tree that cover the thin-skinned nut 270 where the dry husk encloses the inner flesh of the nut so hard to peel which the land of Castanea brings forth. You may suitably extract the inmost pith of the giant fennel which received the spoils of Prometheus's thieving, and at the same time throw in a quantity of leaves of the evergreen tufted thyme and of the berries of the styptic myrtle; or you might perhaps soak the rind of the chamaeleon-thistle, 280 which has a smell like that of basil . The furrow of the victim's tongue grows rough at the base and inflamed from below, and his heart wanders within him. In his frenzy he gnaws his tongue with his dog-teeth, for at times his madness overmasters his wits, while the stomach blinds with wanton obstruction the two channels of liquid and solid food, and rumbles with the wind it has penned within, which circulating in a confined track often seems like the thunder of stormy Olympus, or again like the wicked roaring of the sea 290 as it booms beneath rocky cliffs. Distressed though he is, despite his efforts scarce can the wind escape upward; yet medicinal draughts can at once make him void egg-shaped stools, like the shell-less lumps which the free-feeding fowl, when brooding her warlike chicks, sometimes under stress of recent blows drops from her belly in their membranes ; sometimes under stress of sickness she will cast out her ill-fated offspring upon the earth.
The familiar astringent draught of wormwood steeped in freshly pressed grape-syrup will check his pain; 300 sometimes too you may cut up the resin of the terebinth-tree, or else the tears of the Corsican pine, or again of the Aleppo pine which makes moan on the spot where Phoebus stripped the skin from the limbs of Marsyas; and the tree, lamenting in the glens his far-famed fate, alone utters her passionate plaint unceasingly. Give him also plenty of the flowers of the bright hulwort, fatal to mice, or strip the low-growing shoots of rue, and spikenard, and take also the testicle of the beaver that dwells in the lake; or rub down an obol of silphium with a toothed scraper, or else cut off the same quantity of its gum. 310 Sometimes too he may be given his fill of the wild goat's marjoram, or of milk just curdling in the pail after milking.
But if a man in his folly taste the fresh blood of a bull he falls heavily to the ground in distress, overmastered by pain, when, as it reaches the chest, the blood congeals easily, and, in the hollow of his stomach, clots; the passages are stopped, the breath is straitened within his clogged throat, while, often struggling in convulsions on the ground, he gasps bespattered with foam.
You should cut off for him some juicy wild figs, 320 soak in vinegar, and then mingle the whole with water, stirring together the water and the astringent draught of vinegar; or drain away the burden of his surcharged belly. Also you should strain through a porous bag of fine linen some stirred curd either from a fawn of roe or red deer or from a kid; or again if you take some from the nimble hare you will bring healing and help to the sufferer. Or give him three obols' weight of well-powdered soda, and mix it in a sweet draught of wine; mix too a pound weight with equal parts of silphium and of its gum, 330 and seed of cabbage soaked thoroughly in vinegar. And give him a sprig of flea-bane with its ill-coloured leaves. Or you should bruise some pepper and buds of the bramble-bush; then you will easily dissipate a mass of congealing blood, or break it up if it has lodged in the vessels.
Do not let the agonising drink of the hateful buprestis escape your knowledge; and you should recognise a man overcome by it. In truth, when bitten, its contact with the jaws seems that of soda; it has an evil smell; and all about the mouths of the stomach arise shifting pains; 340 the urine is stopped and the lowest : part of the bladder throbs, while the whole belly is inflated, as when a tympanitic dropsy settles in abundance about the mid navel, and all over the man's limbs the skin is visibly taut. This creature too, I fancy, causes swelling in plump-bellied heifers or calves, whenever they bite it as they graze. For this reason herdsmen name...

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