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Recipe · Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia (Bostock & Riley translation)

torch-tree in vinegar

Original passage

of for tooth-ache.

Pliny the Elder, The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6): Books XXIV–XXXI, translated by John Bostock; H. T. Riley (1856 edition) · Book 24, chapter 27 · THE TORCH-TREE: ONE REMEDY. · lines 2298–2299 · passage pliny-nh:b24:c027:001

Extracted field (numbered)Illegible in source

What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1Solvent / vehicleVinegar“A decoction in vinegar”
  2. 2Heatboiled“A decoction in vinegar”
  3. 3Processdecoction“A decoction in vinegar”
  4. 4Partstem“the wood of the torch-tree”
  5. 5Planttorch-tree“torch-tree”
  6. 6Formgargle“makes a most efficacious gargle”
  7. 7Use (as written)tooth-ache“tooth-ache”
  8. Fresh or driedNot stated in source
  9. DurationNot stated in source
  10. FiltrationNot stated in source