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

Note 2651 — BOOK XXIX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.

John Bostock translation

The tongues of peacocks and larks are recommended for epilepsy, by Lampridius, in his Life of the Emperor Elagabalus. The statement in the text is, of course, a fiction.

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