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Different beverages, too, are made from the cereals, zythum in Egypt, cælia and cerea in Spain, cervesia [Note] and numerous liquors in Gaul and other provinces. The yeast [Note] of all of these is used by women as a cosmetic for the face.—But as we are now speaking of beverages, it will be the best plan to pass on to the various uses of wine, and to make a beginning with the vine of our account of the medicinal properties of the trees.
Summary.—Remedies, narratives, and observations, nine hundred and six.
Authors quoted.—All those mentioned in the preceding Book: and, in addition to them, Chrysermus, [Note] Eratosthenes, [Note] and Alcæus. [Note]
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