[3188] All parts of the laurel, the berries in particular, are impregnated with an essential oil with a powerful odour and of an exciting nature. Upon this volatile principle, and nothing else, the whole of its medicinal properties are based.
[3189] This assertion, Fée says, is no better than fabulous.
[3190] See Lucan’s Pharsalia, B. ix. ll. 723, 776.
[3191] See the Pharsalia, B. ix. l. 719.
[3192] “Irino.” See B. xiii. c. 2.
[3193] This assertion, Fée says, is untrue.
[3194] See B. xv. c. 39.
[3195] All these statements as to the properties of the berries, Fée says, are hypothetical and more than doubtful.
[3196] The Laurus nobilis of modern botany.
[3197] A statement, Fée says, that is altogether illusory.