[653] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. 28, cap. 9.
[654] Brand, Pop. Ant., vol. 2, p. 67.
[655] Ibid., p. 170.
[656] Sextus Placitus, De Medicamentis ex Animalibus, Lyons, 1537, pages not numbered, article "de Puello et Puellæ Virgine."
[657] Etmüller, Opera Omnia, Lyons, 1690, vol. 2, p. 279, Schroderii Dilucidati Zoologia.
[658] Brand, Pop. Ant., vol. 2, p. 68, footnote.
[659] Ibid., p. 67.
[660] Paracelsus, Chirurgia Minora, in Opera Omnia, Geneva, 1662, vol. 2, p. 70.
[661] Ibid., p. 174.
[662] Beckherius, Medicus Microcosmus, London, 1660, p. 174.