The stone in the nest of the swallow


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ABSTRACT THE swallow stone is the agate pebble, called in French _chéledoine_—the name given to the chalcedony (NATURE, vol. xxi. p. 494), but the same virtue is attributed to the swallow


herb. This is the _Chelidonium majus_, about which Britten and Holland, in their “English Plant Names,” give the following quotation from Lyte:—“Chelidonium, that is to say, swallow-herbe,


bycause (as Plinie writeth) it was first found out by swallowes and hath healed the eyes and restored sight to their young ones that had harme in their eyes or have bene blinde.” ARTICLE PDF


AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Fern Bank, Higher Broughton, Manchester WILLIAM E. A. AXON Authors * WILLIAM E. A. AXON View author publications You can also search for this


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