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24.104 CHAP. 104.—THE WOOL PLANT: ONE REMEDY. THE, LACTORIS: ONE REMEDY. THE MILlTARIS: ONE REMEDY.

The wool plant, [Note] given to sheep fasting, greatly increases the milk. The plant commonly called lactoris, [Note] is equally well known: it is full of a milky juice, the taste of which produces vomiting. Some persons say that this is identical with, while others say that it only resembles, the plant known as "mili- tris." [Note] from the fact that, applied with oil, it will effect the cure. within five days, of any wound that has been inflicted with iron.



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