Natural History, Vol. 3

Of a certain pestilential spring of Germany, and of Britain, and of the greatest pains of diseases. Chap. III.

Neither are the evils of beasts only for causing harm, but at times also those of waters and places. In Germany, beyond the Rhine, with the camps moved by Germanicus Caesar, in a maritime tract, there was a spring of fresh water, the only one, which, when drunk, would cause the teeth to fall out within two years,