[2788] “Unseparated from the bran.”
[2789] Probably like the military bread, made of the coarsest meal, and unfermented.
[2791] “Saccos.” See B. xiv. c. 28.
[2792] See B. xviii. c. [30]. Bean meal is but little used in modern medicine, but most that Pliny here says is probably well founded; with the exception, however, of his statement as to its employment for diseases of the chest.
[2793] Most of the properties here ascribed to the lentil, Fée says, are quite illusory.
[2794] This, Fée remarks, is not the fact.
[2795] This statement, Fée thinks, is probably conformable with truth.
[2796] Fée remarks, that we must not confound the cholera of the ancients with the Indian cholera, our cholera morbus. Celsus describes the cholera with great exactness, B. iv. c. 11.
[2797] They would be of no benefit, Fée thinks, in such a case.