[2292] See B. xx. c. 67.
[2293] See B. viii. c. 76.
[2294] In B. viii. c. 76.
[2295] A remedy of which H. Cloquet highly approves, on chemical grounds.
[2296] Cloquet says that the application would be useless.
[2297] In B. viii. c. 34.
[2298] Cloquet and Ajasson admit the truth of this statement: the latter suggests that it may be owing to electricity.
[2299] It is no longer reckoned among the poisons.
[2300] Juice of carpathum, a substance which does not appear to have been identified; but supposed by Bruce to have been a gum called sassa, with which aloes are adulterated in Abyssinia, a thing that Galen tells us was done with the carpathum of the ancients. The sea-hare is the Aplysia depilans of Gmelin. It is not poisonous. See B. ix. c. 72, and B. xxxii. c. 3.
[2301] A composite poison, probably, the ingredients of which are now unknown.