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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 20

Albeston, calx uiua: i.e. two names that there are for quicklime; the lime is "quick" when it has not been wetted; principally, it purges the viscous phlegmatic humour; it kills all fleas and insects if it be shaken on a bed; it should not be given on its own as a purgative without another medicine with it; it helps with all proud flesh that occurs in wounds; it kill worms wherever they occur in the body.