[1720] “Seseli.”
[1721] A sinapism applied to the head, Fée remarks, in cases of cerebral congestion, would very soon cause death.
[1722] Mustard poultices are used extensively at the present day for blisters on the chest.
[1723] “Rubrica.”
[1724] “Scabras genas.”
[1725] This is not the fact; no juice flows from the stem which is capable of becoming concrete.
[1726] As a tonic, mustard-seed is commonly taken whole at the present day.
[1727] In B. xvi. c. 66. In B. xxxii. c. 52, we shall find Pliny speaking of this substance under the name of “Calamochnus.” Dioscorides, B. v. c. 137, speaks of adarca as growing in Cappadocia, and as being a salt substance which adheres to reeds in time of drought.
[1728] This, Fée says, cannot possibly be the fact, whatever adarca may really have been.
[1729] The “grass-green” plant.