[1731] See B. xxii. c. 15.
[1732] From κνίδη, a “nettle.” The nettle, or Urtica urens of Linnæus, has no oleaginous principles in its seed.
[1733] Lily oil is still used as a medicinal composition: it is made from the petals of the white lily, Lilium candidum of Linnæus.
[1734] From Selga, a town of Pisidia. See B. xxiii. c. 49.
[1735] See B. iii. c. 9, and B. xxiii. c. 49.
[1736] A volatile oil, mixed with a small proportion of empyreumatic oil and carbon.
[1737] “Oil-honey.” Probably a terebinthine, or oleo-resin. See B. xxiii. c. 50.
[1738] When rancid and oxygenized by age, it has an irritating quality, and may be found useful for herpetic diseases.
[1739] It very probably will have this effect; but at the expense of the colour of the ivory, which very soon will turn yellow.
[1740] It has quite lost its ancient repute: the only use it is now put to is the manufacture of an inferior soap. See B. xxiii. c. 37.