Note w — BOOK X.
Reading edition
Vegetables afford not only Food to Irrationals, but also Physick, if it be true which Aristotle saith, and after him Pliny; which latter in his 8th Book, Chap. 27. specifies divers Plants made use of as Specificks, by divers, both Beasts and Birds: As Dittany by wounded Deer, Celandine by Swallows, to cure the sore Eyes of their Young, &c. And if the Reader hath a Mind to see more Instances of this Nature, (many of them fanciful enough,) he may consult Mersenne in Genes. pag. 933.