[2342] Asses’ milk is still recommended for pulmonary phthisis.
[2343] See B. viii. c. 16.
[2344] This would appear to be a Greek word in reality.
[2345] “Tunica.”
[2346] See B. xx. c. 2.
[2347] See B. xxv. c. 67. Mares’ milk is not a purgative; and goats’ milk, as Ajasson remarks, is somewhat astringent. Juice of Cyclamen, on the other hand, or sow-bread, is highly purgative.
[2348] See B. xviii. c. 14.
[2349] In Chap. 57 of this Book.
[2350] “Protropum.” See B. xiv. cc. 9, 11.
[2351] A kind of black pudding. Dupinet, the old French translator, says that in his time the people of the Alpine regions still called this dish sanchet.