Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Curiosities of Medical Experience, Vol. 2 of 2
Self-styled wandering Turks and Armenians are frequently met with in crowded cities vending rhubarb, tooth-powder, and various drugs and nos trums, exciting the curiosity Of the idlers that group around them by exhibiting a root bearing a strong resemblance to the human form. This is the far-famed mandragore, Of which such wonder ful accounts have been related by both ancients and modems.
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