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Juglamles, viz. Jupiter's nuts/' They were 

 much used at weddings by this people. 



This author has written much on their 

 medical virtues, book 23, chap. 18, wherein 

 he says, that " the more walnuts one eats, 

 with more ease will he drive worms out of 

 his stomach ; and that, eaten before meals, 

 they lessen the effects of any poisonous food ; 

 eaten after onions/' he states, " they keep 

 them from rising, and prevent the disagree- 

 able mell." 



The bark of the walnut-tree was consi- 

 dered a sovereign remedy for the ringworm. 

 The leaves bruised and stamped with vinegar, 

 and so applied, put away the pain of the 

 ears. 



After Mithridates was vanquished, Cneius 

 Pompeius found in his secret closet or cabinet, 

 among many precious jewels, the receipt of 

 a certain antidote against poison, written in 

 the hand-writing of Mithridates, in his private 

 note-book, as follows : 



" Take two dry walnut kernels, as many 

 figs, of rue twenty leaves ; stamp all these 

 together into one mass, with a grain or corn 

 of salt/' Under which was written, " who- 

 ever accustoms himself to eat of this confec- 

 tion in a morning, next his heart there shall 

 no poison hurt him that day/' 



