Note 137 — Chapter XIII · OF SICKNESSES OF HOUNDS AND OF THEIR CORRUPTIONS
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Lilies. The white lilies here mentioned are probably Lilium connalium (lilies of the valley). In an old book of recipes I find them mentioned as an antidote to poison. (Haus und Land Bib. 1700.) They have medicinal qualities, purgative and diuretic in effect. Dried and powdered they become a sternutatory.