[112] Mastich. The medicinal properties here attributed to it, Fée says, do not exist.
[113] “Onera.”
[114] In B. xiv. c. 25, and B. xvi. cc. 21, 22.
[115] Tar. See B. xvi. c. 21.
[116] The pitch of Calabria, Fée says, is known at the present day as pitch-resin. All that Pliny states as to the medicinal properties of pitch, is destitute, Fée thinks, of the slightest probability.
[117] Or horned serpent.
[118] Taken internally, of course.
[119] In B. xvi. c. 22, and B. xv. c. 7.
[120] “Pitch boiled over again.”
[121] Fée says, that this statement is quite beyond all belief. Indeed there is little doubt that tar taken internally for quinzy, would only tend to aggravate the complaint. He states that a solution of tar in water is sometimes used internally with success for pulmonary phthisis. Bishop Berkeley wrote his Siris, on the virtues of Tar-water as a medicament, having been indebted to it for his recovery from an attack of colic.