[62] See Note 58 above.
[63] In B. xii. c. 56.
[64] Cartilaginous, clear, and free from ligneous substances.
[65] It is still employed, Fée says, to a small extent, as a topical application for ulcerated sores. Its properties are energetic, but nearly all the uses to which Pliny speaks of it as being applied are hypothetical.
[66] In B. xii. c. 56.
[67] Narcotic poisons.
[68] See B. xii. c. 58. See also c. 16 of this Book.
[69] This statement is entirely fabulous.
[70] In B. xii. c. 49. Gum ammoniac is still used to some small extent in modern medicine, for asthma, boils, tumours, and diseases of the bladder.
[71] In B. xii. c. 55. Fée says that it is of the Amygdalite storax that Pliny is here speaking. It is little employed at the present day for internal maladies.