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1 It is this. in fact, combined with its utility, that ought to cause it to be so highly esteemed.
2 In B. xi. c. 4, et seq.
3 Bee-bread, or bee-glue.
4 In B. xi. c. 6. It is a vegetable substance, Fée says, not claborated by the bees. It is still employed in medicine, he says, for resolutive fumigations.
5 The Babylonians employed it for the purpose of embalming.
6 It is of an emollient nature, and is preferred to sugar for sweetening liquids, in a multitude of instances.
7 Fée denies this; but there is no doubt that honey has this tendency with some persons.
8 Fée says that this is not the case.
9 In B. xi. c. 13.
10 In B. xxi. c. 44.
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