270. Terpintina: i.e. the gum of a tree that is hot and dry; it retains its efficacy for a hundred years; it has the dissolving, maturing, and laxative virtues. If turpentine together with meal of barley be put in plasters, it will ripen the cold apostumes, and dissolve the matter. If turpentine be put on red coals and the fumes be allowed to the anus, it will help with the swellings of piles. If the same fumes be allowed to a woman, it will help with hysteria and with displacement of the uterus.