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23.69 CHAP. 69.—THE LICHEN ON PLUM-TREES: TWO REMEDIES.

Upon the bark of the wild and cultivated plums we find an excrescence [Note] growing, known to the Greeks by the name of "lichen:" it is remarkably good for chaps and condylomatous swellings.



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