250. Spodium: i.e. bone of elephant; cold and dry in the third degree; it has the repercussive and healing virtues. If this bone be in a person, it will stop the thirst. If the shavings of this bone be given in juice of plantain, it will stop the flux of the abdomen, and if it be applied as a plaster to the pulses, it will cool the excessive heat of the respiratory organs. If the powder of the same bone be put in red wine, it will stop the flux of dysentery and haemoptysis, and the flux of menstruation and of blood from the nose.