...author, and not Pliny, as Vossius thinks, is the first Latin writer who makes use of the word butyrum. Pliny recommends it mixed with honey to be rubbed...ease the pain of teething, and also for ulcers in the mouth3. The Romans in ge1 On this account some conjecture, and not without probability, that the name...

...Phrygians, and the Romans by the people of Germany 1. It appears also, that when they had learned the art of making it, they employed it only as an ointment in their baths, and particularly in medicine. Besides the proofs already quoted, a passage of Columella2 deserves also to be remarked, because that...

...the latter by the people of Germany. It appears, says Beckmaon, that when they had learned the art of making it, they employed it -only as an ointment in their baths, and particularly aa a medicine. It is never mentioned by Galen and others as food, though they have spoken of it as...

...the latter by the people of Germany. It appears, eaya Beckmann, that when they had learned the art of making it, they employed it only as an ointment in their baths, and particularly as a medicine. It is never mentioned by Galen and others as food, though they have spoken of it as...

...century. It appears, also, that when they had learned the art of muk] ing it, they employed it only as au ointment in their baths, and particularly in medicine....Pliny recommends it, mixed with honey, to be rubbed I over children's gums, in order to case the pain of teething, and also for ulcers in the mouth. The...