Note 324 — PHARMACOLOGIA.
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Vinegar quenches the thirst, and is particularly refreshing after much bodily exertion. It was this property that invigorated the soldiers of Hannibal in their progress over the Alps; it is absurd to imagine that Livy meant to assert that the rocks were dissolved by Vinegar: the expression is only metaphorical. See Sodæ Murias.