CHELIDONIUS LAPIS, in natural history, a stone said by the ancients to be found in the stomachs of young swallows; and greatly cried up for its virtue in the falling-sickness; but, from their description, it appears to be only a species of lycodontes, or bufo-nite. See LYCODONTES, and BUFO-NITE.
CHELIDONIUS LAPIS
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