Fox liver is the liver of the red fox . Healing effects were ascribed to it in traditional medicine.
In Pliny (in Naturalis Historia ) and Marcellus dried and grated Fuchs liver comes as Fuchs lung as a remedy for tuberculosis before. Such an effect is ascribed to it in the Economic Encyclopedia .
In the 19th century, fox liver was still considered an emetic in Germany , just as it was used in folk medicine in the Orient.
Individual evidence
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↑ Christian Martin Koch: Collection of selected treatises for use by practical doctors, Volume 18 Dyck, 1799 p. 432
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↑ Entry " Fuchs " in the Economic Encyclopedia .
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^ Repertory for the Pharmacie Schrag, 1848 p. 599
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^ Archives of Pharmacy , Volumes 103-104 , Deutscher Apotheker-Verein sn 1848 p. 334
