Mirror of Literature,  12 (1828), 79.

[Pineapples]

Anon

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Botany, Pharmaceuticals


    'Christoval Acosta, speaking of the pine-apple, says that "no medicinal virtues have been discovered in it, and it is good for nothing but to eat"'.



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