 ... in medicine, but is now of no repute at all. Those who have observed how freely green ivy burns in a fire of garden rubbish may reasonably expect that, by the evident presence in the plant of oily or resinous substances, it may some day prove to be...  The Flowering Plants of Great Britain - Page 58by Anne Pratt - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Nicholas Culpeper, Dr. Parkins (John) - 1809 - 438 pages
...the drink may stand some small time therein before it be drank. Cato saith, That wine put into the cup, will soak through it, by reason of the antipathy that is between them. There seems to be a very great antipathy between wine and Ivy ; for if one hath got a surfeit by drinking... | |
 | Shirley Hibberd - 1872 - 144 pages
...the plant of oily or resinous substances, it may some day prove to be serviceable in the arts. Cato saith that wine put into the ivy cup will soak through...wherein a handful of ivy leaves had been steeped." Many experiments have been made for the purpose of determining its power to modify the intoxicating... | |
 | Shirley Hibberd - 1872 - 148 pages
...the plant of oily or resinous substances, it may some day prove to be serviceable in the arts. Cato saith that wine put into the ivy cup will soak through...draught of the same wine wherein a handful of ivy loaves had been steeped." Many experiments have been made for the purpose of determining its power... | |
 | William George Black - 1883 - 250 pages
...recommended for use in cases of spleen, or of whooping-cough. " Cato saith, That wine put into such a cup will soak through it, by reason of the antipathy that is between them."* Laurel was deemed a preservative against epilepsy, and thence an antidote to madness. Fumigating byres... | |
 | Richard Folkard - 1884 - 660 pages
...made of Ivy, so as the drink may stand some time therein before it be drunk ; for, he adds, " Cato saith that wine put into the Ivy cup will soak through...antipathy that is between them ; " this antipathy being so great that a drunkard " will find his speediest cure if he drunk a draught of the same wine wherein... | |
 | 1888 - 340 pages
...jaundice; and taken before one be set to drink hard, preserveth from drunkenness." And again : " Cato saith that wine put into the (ivy) cup, will soak through it by reason of the antipathy there is between them. There seems to be a very great antipathy between wine and ivy ; for if one has... | |
 | Nicholas Culpeper - 1995 - 618 pages
...the drink may stand some small time therein before it be drank. Cato saith, That wine put into such a cup, will soak through it, by reason of the antipathy that is between them. There seems to be a very great antipathy between wine and Ivy; for if one hath got a surfeit by drinking... | |
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