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

Note 2300 — BOOK XXVIII. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES. (continued 2)

John Bostock translation

Juice of carpathum, a substance which does not appear to have been identified; but supposed by Bruce to have been a gum called sassa, with which aloes are adulterated in Abyssinia, a thing that Galen tells us was done with the carpathum of the ancients. The sea-hare is the Aplysia depilans of Gmelin. It is not poisonous. See B. ix. c. 72, and B. xxxii. c. 3.

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