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

Note 2850 — BOOK XXX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.

John Bostock translation

“Digitus medicus”—“The physician’s finger,” properly. Why the fourth finger, or that next to the little finger, was thus called, it seems impossible to say.

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