| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
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Fresh carobs [Note] are unwholesome to the stomach, and relaxing to the bowels; [Note] in a dried state, however, they are astringent, and are much more beneficial to the stomach; they are diuretic also. For pains in the stomach, persons boil three Syrian carobs [Note] with one sextarius of water, down to one-half, and drink the decoction.
The juices which exude from the branches of the cornel [Note] are received on a plate of red-hot iron [Note] without it touching the wood; the rust of which is applied for the cure of incipient lichens. The arbutus or unedo [Note] bears a fruit that is difficult of digestion, and injurious to the stomach.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 23.78 | Plin. Nat. 23.79 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 23.80 |
