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brane can be turned outward. Also, when by keeping close 

 all the Winter, her Sight is become dim, she rubbeth herself 

 with the Herb Marathrum, and also anointeth and com- 

 forteth her Eyes. But if the Scales be hard and insensible, 

 she scratcheth herself with the Prickles of the Juniper. 



The Dragon, 1 feeling a Loathing of Meat in the Spring, 

 removeth it with the Juice of the wild Lettuce. 2 



The Barbarians, when they hunt Panthers, 3 thoroughly 

 rub the Flesh (which they lay as a Bait for them) with 

 Aconitum 4 (which is Poison). The Beasts have no sooner 

 touched the Flesh, but immediately they are seized with 

 great Anguish in their Throat; on which Account some have 

 called this Poison Pardalianches. But the wild Beast hath a 

 Remedy against this in the Ordure of a Man; and at other 

 Times, also, so eager is he for it, that when the Shepherds 

 have carefully hanged it up aloft in some Vessel, so that 

 it is above their Power to reach it by leaping, he becomes 

 ready to faint with straining to get up and seize it, and in the 

 end thus killeth himself. And yet otherwise he is of such 

 enduring Vitality, that he continueth to fight when his very 

 Bowels are cut out. 



The Elephant, if he swallow the Chameleon among the 

 Leaves which this Creature is like in Colour, goeth straight 

 to the wild Olive for a Remedy against this his Poison. 



Bears, when they have tasted Mandrake Apples, 5 lick 

 up Emmets. 



The Stag uses as an Antidote against poisonous Weeds in 

 its Pasture, the Herb Cinara (Artichoke). 6 



Pigeons, 7 Graculus, 8 Merulse, 9 purge away their yearly 

 Loss of Appetite with eating Bay-leaves. Partridges, 10 

 Doves, 11 Turtle-doves, 12 and Poultry, 13 do the like with the 



I Perhaps some species of Boa. Lib. viii. 14. Wern. Club. 



8 Lib. xix. 8. 3 Lib. viii. 17. 4 Lib. xxvii. 2. 5 Lib. xxix. 6. 



6 This word Cinara, here translated Artichoke, is not mentioned any 

 where else by Pliny, and it is by no means certain that the artichoke is 

 the plant intended. Wern. Club. 



7 Lib. x. 35. 8 Lib. xi. 29. 9 Lib. x. 29. 10 Lib. x. 33. 



II Lib. x. 34. Ia Lib. x. 24. I3 Lib. x. 21. 



