[2508] “Pilularum.”
[2509] Or Pleiades.
[2510] Dioscorides compares the root, with less exactness, with that of gentian.
[2511] The same preparation that is known to us as Spanish liquorice or Spanish juice.
[2512] In B. xi. c. 119. It certainly has the effect of palling the appetite, but in many people it has the effect of creating thirst instead of allaying it. Fée thinks that from the fecula and sugar that it contains, it may possibly be nourishing, and he states that it is the basis of a favourite liquor in the great cities of France. Spanish liquorice water is used in England, but only by school-boys, as a matter of taste, and by patients as a matter of necessity.
[2513] The Greek for “without thirst.”
[2514] Or “mouth medicine.” Beyond being a bechic, or cough-medicine, it has no medicinal properties whatever.
[2515] “Pterygiis.” The word “pterygia” has been previously used as meaning a sort of hang-nail, or, perhaps, whitlow.
[2516] “Scabiem.”
[2517] Swellings of the anus more particularly.