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The virtue of the Emerald is to counteract poison. They say that if a venomous animal should look at it, it will become blinded. The gem also acts as a preservative against epilepsy; it cures leprosy, strengthens sight and memory, checks copulation, during which act it will break, it worn at the time on the finger.
[...] la belle et incomparable perle de cet Hernand Cortez, qu'il rapporta des Indes, sur laquelle il fit graver ces mots: Inter natos mulierum non surrexit major, [...] laquelle il perdit depuis devant Alger [...]. [...] Brantôme s'est trompé ici: le joyau dont il parle n'était point une perle, mais une émaraude.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)The virtue of the Emerald is to counteract poison. They say that if a venomous animal should look at it, it will become blinded. The gem also acts as a preservative against epilepsy; it cures leprosy, strengthens sight and memory, checks copulation, during which act it will break, it worn at the time on the finger.
[...] la belle et incomparable perle de cet Hernand Cortez, qu'il rapporta des Indes, sur laquelle il fit graver ces mots: Inter natos mulierum non surrexit major, [...] laquelle il perdit depuis devant Alger [...]. [...] Brantôme s'est trompé ici: le joyau dont il parle n'était point une perle, mais une émaraude.