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195. 22. vin de Chiraz. Shiraz, the capital of Farsistan, Persia, famous for its wine.

199. 5. des thériaques. Teriyak or Theriack is the great counter-poison, internai as well as external, of the East, used for instance when bitten by snakes or stung by scorpions.

8. pierre de bezoard, bezoar stone, a name for certain calculi or concrétions found in the stomach or intestines of some animais (generally formed there around some foreign substance, a bit of wood, straw, hair, and so forth) supposcd by superstitious people in the Orient to be efïicacious in preventing the fatal effects of poison.