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

Note 2615 — BOOK XXIX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.

John Bostock translation

It has been ascertained by experiment that the vesicatory principle resides in the wings more particularly. Ajasson remarks, that it is possible that the ancients may not have known the genuine Cantharides, the Canth. vesicatoria of modern medicine.

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