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

Note 2779 — BOOK XXX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.

John Bostock translation

Marcus Empiricus says that the heart must be enclosed in a silver lupine and worn suspended from the neck, being efficacious for scrofula both in males and females. The silver lupine was probably what we should call a “locket.”

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