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Show Pearls as Medicine. Scotland still produces pearls, founrt 5 mainly In tho fresh water mussel. J Cleopatra was not tho only person " I who swallowed a dissolved pearl. Until Un-til comparatively recent times they ft ere used medicinally In Europo nnd , still appear In tho materia medlca of China. According to ono Chlneso authority, au-thority, a pearl, after bolng treated -1 with pumlco stono and honeycomb, F mixed with tho gall of a serpent, rj "might bo drawn out to tho length of 1 three or four feet. Mako It Into pills J and swallow thorn henceforth food ) will bo unnecessary." Tho suggestion Is not that tho paUont would bo fin- . . t Ished off, but that ho would llvo, ood- ... j less, forever. "j |