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CHAP. 59.—POLENTA: EIGHT REMEDIES.

Of the various kinds of polenta we have already treated sufficiently1 at length, when speaking of the places where it is made. It differs from barley meal, in being parched, a process which renders it more wholesome for the stomach. It arrests looseness of the bowels, and heals inflammatory eruptions; and it is employed as a liniment for the eyes, and for head-ache, combined with mint or some other refreshing herb. It is used in a similar manner also for chilblains and wounds inflicted by serpents; and with wine, for burns. It has the effect also of checking pustular eruptions.

1 In B. xviii. c. 14. Injections of meal are still employed, Fée says, for diarrhœa.

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