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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 167 — BOOK XXIV. THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE FOREST TREES.

John Bostock translation

The “chaste” tree. It is no longer used in medicine; the fruit has somewhat the flavour of spice, Fée says, and taken internally it would have the converse of an antaphrodisiac effect. The other parts of it are quite inert.

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