Note 160 — BOOK XXIV. THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE FOREST TREES.
John Bostock translation
It is a well-known fact, that juniper berries are diuretic; they impart also to the urine the odour of the violet, a property which is equally possessed by turpentine. All the other properties here attributed to the juniper, are, in Fée’s opinion, either hypothetical or absurd.