Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.].
<<Plin. Nat. 23.51 Plin. Nat. 23.52 (Latin) >>Plin. Nat. 23.53

23.52 CHAP. 52. (5.)—THE PALM WHICH PRODUCES MYROBALANUM: THREE REMEDIES.

Of the palm which produces myrobalanum, [Note] the most esteemed kind is that grown in Egypt; [Note] the dates of which, unlike those of the other kinds, are without stones. Used with astringent wine, they arrest [Note] diarrhœa and the catamenia, and promote the cicatrization of wounds.



Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.].
<<Plin. Nat. 23.51 Plin. Nat. 23.52 (Latin) >>Plin. Nat. 23.53

Powered by PhiloLogic