[2738] In B. xi. c. 8, and B. xxi. c. 49.

[2739] When it curdles on the stomach.

[2740] In c. 49 of this Book.

[2741] “Malagmata.”

[2742] Fée, at some length, and with considerable justice, combats this assertion; though at the same time he remarks that Pliny is right in calling the attention of the medical world to the use of simple substances.

[2743] “Scripulatim”—“By scruples.”

[2744] He forgets that many of them could only be produced by the agency of an Eastern sun.

[2745] See B. xviii. c. [20].

[2746] See B. xiv. c. 5.

[2747] Fée says that it can have no such effect.