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Aug 19: Pare's JOURNEYS IN DIVERSE PLACES

Roses Boiled in Wine

Astonishing treatments and cures are related by Ambroise Pare,
famed surgeon of the fifteenth century. One remedy, for instance,
used to cure a distinguished nobleman, was red roses
boiled in white wine,—and it was effective.

Read from Pare's JOURNEYS IN DIVERSE PLACES ......   Vol. 38, pp. 50-58