[212] The leaves of it, Fée says, are of a caustic nature, and have been employed before now by impostors for producing sores on the skin of a frightful appearance, but easily healed.
[213] In B. xvi. c. 34.
[214] Sympathies and antipathies existing in plants. See c. 1 of this Book.
[215] Not a reed, Fée thinks, but some other monocotyledon that has not been identified. See B. xii. c. 48.
[216] See B. xx. c. 3.
[217] See B. xvi. c. 66.
[218] Celsus also speaks of the root of the reed as being efficacious for this purpose, B. v. c. 26.
[219] Fée says that neither of these last assertions is true.
[220] See B. xiii. c. 21. It is no longer used in medicine.
[221] These statements as to the virtues of the ashes of papyrus, Fée says are absurd.