Recipe · Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia (Bostock & Riley translation)
lappa canaria in wine + other vehicle
Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia (Bostock & Riley translation)Source confidence: lower84% of resolved names disputedA 19th-century English translation (Bostock & Riley) of a 1st-century Latin text. Disputed share over 608 resolved names. Shown as lower confidence when at least half are disputed.ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.Provisional extraction · prompt v3 · every quote passed the verbatim check
Original passage
As to the plant known as the “,” beaten up in wine with plantago and millefolium, it effects the cure of carcinomatous sores, the application being removed at the end of three days. Taken out of the ground without the aid of iron, and thrown into their wash, or , it cures diseases in swine. Some persons add, however, that the person, as he takes it up, must say—“This is the plant argemon, a remedy discovered by Minerva for such swine as shall taste thereof.”
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 116 · THE PHILANTHROPOS: ONE REMEDY. THE LAPPA CANARIA: TWO REMEDIES. · lines 4256–4263 · passage pliny-nh:b24:c116:002
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What the pipeline extracted
- 1PlantProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.lappa canaria“lappa canaria”
- 2Solvent / vehicleProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.Wine + other vehicle“given to them in wine and milk”
- 3FormProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.drink“given to them in wine and milk”
- 4Use (as written)ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.diseases in swine“diseases in swine”
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- Fresh or driedNot stated in source
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