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24.114 CHAP. 114.—THE PLANT CALLED VENUS' COMB: ONE REMEDY.

From its resemblance to a comb, they give the name of "Venus' comb" [Note] to a certain plant, the root of which, bruised

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with mallows, extracts all foreign substances from the human body.



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