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it refreshes and relieves the kidneys and the bladder, alleviates the 
acidity of the urine, extinguishes fever, heals colic pains, and it 
(kidney wood), and prepare the water in this way :—They make an 
infusion of the wood cut up into small chips and of a moderate 
quantity of clear water, such as they drink ordinarily, and let it 
stand until the water is taken and finished, when they make another 
infusion of the same chips, and that being used up, another, and 
repeat that as long as the water turns blue. Those who change the 
chips every day are therefore much mistaken, and still more those who 
make drinking vessels out of the thick stem to drink from as the wood 
totally loses its efficacy within a fortnight if continually infused, and 
afterwards does not colour the water any longer, Asa rule the water 
turns a clear azure blue within half-an-hour, and the colour deepens 
as time goes on, so that it appears quite a miracle to those who look 
on, There is also another kind of this plant which possesses the 
egree.’ So much according to M 
Cannot say anything; but I will 
* “Metl,” in Recchi’s edition. 
: lagi nefriticum ” (Recchi’s ed.). 
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