[1540] It is not the rue that has this effect, so much as the salts of copper which are formed.
[1541] Fée thinks it not likely that the rue grown here was at all superior to that of other localities.
[1542] This word, omitted in the text, is supplied from Dioscorides.
[1543] Or aconite. There is no truth whatever in these assertions, that rue has the effect of neutralizing the effects of hemlock, henbane, or poisonous fungi. Boerrhave says that he employed rue successfully in cases of hysteria and epilepsy; and it is an opinion which originated with Hippocrates, and is still pretty generally entertained, that it promotes the catamenia.
[1544] See B. viii. c. 40.
[1545] See B. x. c. 86.
[1546] “Si vero sit cephalæa.”
[1547] Dioscorides says however, B. iii. c. 52, that it arrests incontinence of the urine. See below.
[1548] De Morb. Mul. B. i. c. 128.
[1549] De Diæta, B. ii. c. 26.