A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

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1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    both, report it fomethmg otherwife; that (for want of Honey) they dipped him into melted Bees-Wax, which perhaps they might take from the Terfians; for Tally iaith fTuficul gjhtaft- I i.) Ter fie cerd ctrcumli- condiunt ut qudm maxime fermaneant diuturm corpora. The Terfians cafe their dead Bodies all over with Wax, that they may, continue a very long time uncorruptcd. Statius will have it, that Alexander the Great was alio kept in Honey. Tjuc & ad AEmathios Manes ; nbi belli- ger urbis Conditory Hyblteo perfufus Ne A are diirat. Scat. Sylv. h 3. Sylv. z. f. n6. Varro thinks Her ac Tides TontictiSy who ordered dead Bodies to be burnt, was more in the right of it, than ‘Democritus, who was for preferving them in Honey. Alexander ah Alexandre tells us (Genial. cDier. I 3. c, z.) when tht /Egyptians em¬ balmed Bodies, they uied Honey lor one thine* among their Spices and Gums, Condi e- bant Cadavera Myrrhdy Aloe, CedrOy Me lie, Sale y Cerdy Bitmniney & Refind Odonbus TJngentis delibutd. Some indeed loath even the Honey-Comb, and find great faults in it, as that it dulls Appetite, hurts Bigeftion, raiieth hiatus, breedeth Choler, occafions Vomiting, Gripes, Looinels,
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