Note 1343 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
See Pliny's Nat. Hist. Lib. viii. cap. 27, where several instances are given of animals discovering the medicinal efficacy of herbs by their own use of them, and pointing to some operations in the art of healing by their own practice.—Warburton.
The instances are all fanciful or fabulous.