100. Cucurbita: (gourd) i.e. a herb that is moderately cold and wet; it grows in hot countries; this name can be applied to the seed of this herb, and a different seed is called water melon, which has the same nature as the gourd; these seeds serve well against oppilation of the liver, the spleen, the kidneys, and the bladder, and against apostumes of the chest; it serves well for choleric people to take it in summer; it is good against illness caused by the choleric humour, such as tertian fever and causon. Platearius says that the three big