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Of a kindred nature with the reed is the papyrus [Note] of Egypt; a plant that is remarkably useful, in a dried state, for
dilating and drying up fistulas, and, by its expansive powers, opening an entrance for the necessary medicaments. The ashes [Note] of paper prepared from the papyrus are reckoned among the caustics: those of the plant, taken in wine, have a narcotic effect. The plant, applied topically in water, removes callosities of the skin.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 24.50 | Plin. Nat. 24.51 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 24.52 |
