[1392] Modern notions, Fée says, do not agree with those of the ancients on the subject of elecampane. The root owes the energy of its action to the camphor which it contains.
[1393] This notion of the virtues of the onion is quite erroneous, though it still prevails to a considerable degree. Hippocrates, however, Dioscorides, and Galen, like Pliny, attribute this property to the onion.
[1394] This, Fée says, is not the fact.
[1395] A disease of the eye, by which the cornea contracts a whiteness.
[1396] A white speck within the black of the eye.
[1397] It is of no use whatever for such a purpose.
[1398] Fox evil, or scurf, or scaldhead: a disease which causes the hair to fall off the body. It derives its name from the Greek ἀλώπηξ, a “fox,” from the circumstance that they were supposed to be peculiarly affected with a similar disease.
[1399] Or millepedes. See c. [6] of this Book.
[1400] So the school of Salerno says—
Non modicum sanas Asclepius asserit illas,