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1 This notion of the virtues of the onion is quite erroneous, though it still prevails to a considerable degree. Hippocrates, however, Dioscorides, and Galen, like Pliny, attribute this property to the onion.
2 This, Fée says, is not the fact.
3 A disease of the eye, by which the cornea contracts a whiteness.
4 A white speck within the black of the eye.
5 It is of no use whatever for such a purpose.
6 Fox evil, or scurf, or scaldhead: a disease which causes the hair to fall off the body. It derives its name from the Greek ἀλώπηξ, a "fox," from the circumstance that they were supposed to be peculiarly affected with a similar disease.
7 Or millepedes. See c. 6 of this Book.
8 So the school of Salerno says—
Non modicum sanas Asclepius asserit illas,
Præsertim stomacho, pulchrumque creare colorem.
9 This is not the case.
10 "Vermiculis." Small worms or maggots.
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