Nothing, they say, is more effectual.

I must take this opportunity of thanking the good soul who once upon a time, so I was afterwards informed, made me drink such a concoction unawares for the cure of some such trouble; but I still remain incredulous.

I have been greatly struck by the fact that the ancient physician of Anazarbus used to recommend the same remedy.

Dioscorides tells us: _Cicadae, quae inassatae manduntur, vesicae doloribus prosunt_.

Since the distant days of this patriarch of _materia medica_ the Provencal peasant has retained his faith in the remedy revealed to him by the Greeks, who came from Phocaea with the olive, the fig, and the vine.