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CHAP. 79.—CAROBS: FIVE OBSERVATIONS UPON THEM. THE CORNEL; ONE REMEDY. THE FRUIT OF THE ARBUTUS.

Fresh carobs1 are unwholesome to the stomach, and relaxing to the bowels;2 in a dried state, however, they are astringent, and are much more beneficial to the stomach; they are diuretic also. For pains in the stomach, persons boil three Syrian carobs3 with one sextarius of water, down to one-half, and drink the decoction.

The juices which exude from the branches of the cornel4 are received on a plate of red-hot iron5 without it touching the wood; the rust of which is applied for the cure of incipient lichens. The arbutus or unedo6 bears a fruit that is difficult of digestion, and injurious to the stomach.

1 See B. xv. c. 26.

2 They are productive of colic and diarrhœa.

3 See B. xiii. c. 16.

4 See B. xv. c. 31.

5 The juice of the sap would, to all appearance, produce an acetate or oxide of iron.

6 See B. xv. c. 28.

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