and Dioscorides maintains this, Book 2.
Original French: & le maintient Dioſcorides lib. 2.
Modern French: & le maintient Dioscorides lib. 2.
Salamandra terrestris
The Salamander is a kinde of Lizard, lazie, diversely spotted, in vaine thought that it will not burne. It hath a Septicall, exulcerating, calfactorie power. It is mixed in Septicall and Lepricall Medicines as also Cantharides are, & it is layd up in store after the like manner. Being moystned with oyle it doth doe away the haire. But being unbowelled, the head & ye feet taken away, it is preserved in Hony for the selfsame use.
Pedanius Dioscorides [c. 40-90 AD]
The Greek Herbal
John Goodyer, translator
New York: Hafner, 1968
The Greek Herbal
John Goodyer, translator
New York: Hafner, 1968
Galien et Dioscoride
Galien, De temperamentis, III, iv; Dioscoride, II, lxvii (addition de 1552, var. a).
François Rabelais [ca. 1483–1553]
Œuvres complètes
p. 511, n. 4
Mireille Huchon, editor
Paris: Gallimard, 1994
Œuvres complètes
p. 511, n. 4
Mireille Huchon, editor
Paris: Gallimard, 1994