lingnum

Updated: February 21, 2026

Here grows, also, lingnum sanctum, or guaiacum: its virtues are very well known, more especially to those who observe not the Seventh Commandment, and are given to impure copulations! physicians drawing hence, in several compositions, the greatest antidote for venereal diseases; as also for cold and viscous humours.

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