When Godfrey was wounded with an arrow, an “odoriferous panʹacy” distilled from dittany was applied to the wound, whereupon the arrow-head fell out, and the wound healed immediately. (Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered, book xi.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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