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been left to hang ; this exposure to the air makes 

 them actually beneficial to the stomach, and for sick 

 persons, as they are slightly cooUng and remove 

 nausea. 



VII. Next after those that have been hung come 

 in value those kept in chaff; but those kept in grape 

 skins are injurious to the head, bladder and stomach, 

 although they check looseness of the bowels and are 

 very beneficial to those who spit blood. Those which 

 have been preserved in wine or " sweet wine " " go to 

 the head ; when however they have been preserved 

 in must they have an effect worse even than those 

 preserved in grape skins. Concentrated must too 

 makes them injurious to the stomach. Physicians 

 hold that the most wholesome grapes are those kept 

 in rain water, although they are the least pleasant 

 to the taste ; but their grateful character is felt 

 by those suffering from heartburn, disordered liver, 

 vomiting of bile, cholera, dropsy, and fever accom- 

 panied by high temperature.* Those however kept 

 in jars stimulate the palate, stomach and appetite, 

 but they are thought to become rather heavy owing 

 to the fumes from the skins. If chickens have eaten 

 the flower of the vine among their food, they never 

 touch the bunches on the vine. 



VIII. Vine cuttings that have borne grapes have 

 an astringent property, but are more efficacious if 

 they have been kept in jars. 



IX. Grape stones have the same property. It is arape stones. 

 because of them that wine causes headache. 

 Roasted and pounded they are beneficial to the 



sick folk who find grapes a refreshing food. Accordingly, I 

 put a comma after hydropicis and read fehri with two MSS. 

 It is then possible to give to cum its proper sense. 



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