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 Agra rian Law,Ague (A cure for). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Agrimony.
 
The older spelling was Argemony, and Pliny calls it argemonia, from the Greek argemos, a white speck on the eye, which this plant was supposed to cure.   1
 


 Agra rian Law,Ague (A cure for). 

 

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