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animal whose bites or stings can be cured by it, are repre- 

 sented in the same wood-cut as the herb. For example, 

 the back view of a human head with a thick crop of hair is 

 introduced into the block with the Maidenhair Fern, which 



Text-fig. 109. Herbs of the Scorpion [Porta, Phytognomonica, 1591]. 



is an ancient specific for baldness ; a Pomegranate with its 

 seeds exposed, and a plant of " Toothwort," with its hard, 

 white scale-leaves, are represented in the same figure as 

 a set of human teeth ; a drawing of a scorpion accom- 

 panies some pictures of plants with articulated seed-vessels 



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