[1471] Or cancer.
[1472] Cato, De Re Rust., 156, 157.
[1473] See Note [1301] to c. 2 of this Book.
[1474] This absurd notion of antipathy is carried so far by the author of the Geoponica, B. v. c. 11, that he states that if wine is thrown on cabbage while on the fire, it will never be thoroughly boiled.
[1475] Fée remarks, that this fact would surely have engaged the attention of the moderns, if there had been any truth in the statement.
[1476] “Crapulam discuti.” “Crapula” was that state, after drinking, colloquially known at the present day as “seediness.”
[1477] The contrary is in reality the case, it being a diet only suitable to strong stomachs.
[1478] De Morb. Mulier. B. i. cc. 73 and 74. De Nat. Mulier. 29 and 31.
[1479] The jaundice.