[2708] Dioscorides, however, gives this advice, B. iii. c. 94.
[2709] In c. 56 of this Book.
[2710] It is this, in fact, combined with its utility, that ought to cause it to be so highly esteemed.
[2711] In B. xi. c. 4, et seq.
[2712] Bee-bread, or bee-glue.
[2713] In B. xi. c. 6. It is a vegetable substance, Fée says, not elaborated by the bees. It is still employed in medicine, he says, for resolutive fumigations.
[2714] The Babylonians employed it for the purpose of embalming.
[2715] It is of an emollient nature, and is preferred to sugar for sweetening liquids, in a multitude of instances.
[2716] Fée denies this; but there is no doubt that honey has this tendency with some persons.
[2717] Fée says that this is not the case.