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

brya · vehicle not stated

Original passage

At Corinth, and in the vicinity of that city, the Greeks give the name of “” to a plant of which there are two varieties; the wild brya, which is altogether barren, and the cultivated one. This last, when found in Syria and Egypt, produces a ligneous fruit, somewhat larger than a gall-nut, in great abundance, and of an acrid flavour; medical men employ it as a substitute for galls in the compositions known as “antheræ.” The wood also, with the blossoms, leaves, and bark of the tree, is used for similar purposes, but their properties are not so strongly developed. , and given for discharges of blood from the mouth, irregularities of the catamenia, and cœliac affections: , it checks the increase of all kinds of abscesses.

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 42 · THE BRYA: TWENTY-NINE REMEDIES. · lines 2686–2697 · passage pliny-nh:b24:c042:001

Extracted field (numbered)Illegible in source

What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1Plantbrya“brya”
  2. 2Partbark“The bark is pounded also”
  3. 3Heatcold“beaten up and applied”
  4. 4Filtrationnot applicable“beaten up and applied to the part affected”
  5. 5Processother“beaten up and applied to the part affected”
  6. 6Formpoultice“beaten up and applied to the part affected”
  7. 7Use (as written)checks the increase of all kinds of abscesses“checks the increase of all kinds of abscesses”
  8. Fresh or driedNot stated in source
  9. Solvent / vehicleNot stated in source
  10. DurationNot stated in source