CHAP. 106.—SIX MEDICINES DERIVED FROM THE CORCHORUS.
The corchorus [Note] is a plant which is used at Alexandria as an
article of food: the leaves of it are rolled up, one upon the
other, like those of the mulberry, and it is wholesome, it is
said, for the viscera, and in cases of alopecy, being good also
for the removal of freckles. I find it stated also, that it cures
the scab in cattle very rapidly: and, according to Nicander, [Note]
it is a remedy for the stings of serpents, it gathered before it
blossoms.
