[1922] A poor compliment to Nature, as Fée remarks.
[1923] It has in reality no medicinal properties to speak of; but its name, “stone seed,” and its appearance, would, of course, ensure its reputation as an efficient cure for calculus.
[1924] Some kind of lichen, probably, but what in particular it is impossible to say.
[1925] Ring-worm or tetter.
[1926] Hardouin says that this herpetic disease is called “cantharides,” because it attacks the body as the cantharis attacks wheat. See B. xviii. c. 44.
[1927] It would be superfluous to look for sense in this silly formula.
[1928] Anguillara and C. Bauhin identify it with the Ranunculus thora of Linnæus, and other authorities with the Doronicum pardalianches of Linnæus. Pliny is the only writer that mentions it; and if it really had any existence, it would seem quite impossible, as Fée says, to identify it with correctness.
[1929] “Venenum cervarium.”
[1930] See B. xxv. c. 25.
[1931] “Salivati.” Holland renders this, “A mash wherewith they used to drench cattle.”