| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 23.71 | Plin. Nat. 23.72 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 23.73 |
Cherries are relaxing to the bowels and unwholesome [Note] to the stomach; in a dried state, however, they are astringent and diuretic. [Note] I find it stated by some authors, that if cherries are taken early in the morning covered with dew, the kernels being eaten with them, the bowels will be so strongly acted upon as to effect a cure for gout in the feet.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 23.71 | Plin. Nat. 23.72 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 23.73 |
