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1 All this passage is found in Dioscorides, B. v. c. 1, who probably borrowed it from the same sources as our author.
2 Fée remarks, that all the statements here made as to the medicinal properties of the vine are entirely unfounded, except that with reference to the bark of the vine: as it contains a small quantity of tannin, it might possibly, in certain cases, arrest hæmorrhage.
3 This cannot be the bryony, Fée says, but simply a variety of the grape vine with white fruit. See further in c. 5 of this Book.
4 "Impetigines."
5 Alkaline ashes, which would differ but very little, Fée says, from those of other vegetable productions.
6 This statement as to the caustic properties of the ashes is based upon truth.
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