BOOK XXIV.THE REMEDIES DERIVED PROM THE FOREST TREES.Chap.Page1.The antipathies and sympathies which exist among trees and plants12.The lotus of Italy: six remedies33.Acorns: thirteen remedies44.The kermes-berry of the holm-oak: three remediesib.5.Gall-nuts: twenty-three remedies56.Mistletoe: eleven remediesib.7.The excrescences which grow on the robur: one remedy. The cerrus: eight remedies68.The cork-tree: two remedies79.The beech: four remediesib.10.The cypress: twenty-three remediesib.11.The cedar: thirteen remedies812.Cedrides: ten remedies913.Galbanum: twenty-three remedies1014.Hammoniacum: twenty-four remedies1115.Storax: ten remediesib.16.Spondylium: seventeen remedies1217.Sphagnos, sphacos, or bryon: five remediesib.18.The terebinth: six remediesib.19.The pitch-tree and the larch: eight remedies1320.The chamæpitys: ten remediesib.21.The pityusa: six remedies1422.Resins: twenty-two remedies1523.Pitch: twenty-three remedies1724.Pisselæon and palimpissa: sixteen remedies1825.Pissasphaltos: two remediesib.26.Zopissa: one remedy1927.The torch-tree: one remedyib.28.The lentisk: twenty-two remediesib.29.The plane-tree: twenty-five remedies2030.The ash: five remedies2131.The maple: one remedyib.32.The poplar: eight remediesib.33.The elm: sixteen remedies2234.The linden-tree: five remedies2335.The elder: fifteen remediesib.36.The juniper: twenty-one remedies2437.The willow: fourteen remedies. The willow of Ameria: one remedy2538.The vitex: thirty-three remedies2639.The erica: one remedy2840.The broom: five remediesib.41.The myrica, otherwise called the tamarica, or tamarix: three remedies2942.The brya: twenty-nine remedies3043.The blood-red shrub: one remedy3144.The siler: three remediesib.45.The privet: eight remedies3246.The alder: one remedyib.47.The several varieties of the ivy: thirty-nine remediesib.48.The cisthos: five remedies3449.The cissos erythranos: two remedies. The chamæcissos: two remedies. The smilax: three remedies. The clematis: eighteen remediesib.50.The reed: nineteen remedies3551.The papyrus, and the paper made from it: three remedies3652.The ebony: five remedies3753.The rhododendron: one remedyib.54.The rhus or sumach-tree; two varieties of it: eight remedies. Stomatice3855.Rhus erythros: nine remediesib.56.The erythrodanus: eleven remediesib.57.The alysson: two remedies3958.The radicula or struthion: thirteen remedies. The apocynum: two observations upon itib.59.Rosemary: eighteen remedies4060.The seed called cachrys.4161.The herb savin: seven remediesib.62.Selago: two remediesib.63.Samolus: two remedies4264.Gum: eleven remediesib.65.The Egyptian or Arabian thorn: four remedies4366.The white thorn: two remedies. The acanthion: one remedyib.67.Gum acacia: eighteen remediesib.68.Aspalathos: one remedy4569.The erysisceptrum, adipsatheon, or diaxylon: eight remediesib.70.The thorn called appendix: two remedies. The pyracantha: one remedy4671.The paliurus: ten remediesib.72.The agrifolia. The aquifolia: one remedy. The yew: one property belonging to itib.73.The bramble: fifty-one remedies4774.The cynosbatos: three remedies4875.The Idæan bramble5076.The rhamnos; two varieties of it: five remediesib.77.Lycium: eighteen remedies5178.Sarcocolla: two remedies5279.Oporice: two remediesib.80.The trixago, chamædrys, chamædrops, or teucria: sixteen remediesib.81.The chamædaphne: five remedies5382.The chamelæa: six remediesib.83.The chamæsyce: eight remedies5484.The chamæcissos: one remedyib.85.The chamæleuce, farfarum, or farfugium: one remedyib.86.The chamæpeuce: five remedies. The chamæcyparissos: two remedies. The ampeloprason: six remedies. The stachys: one remedy5587.The clinopodion, cleonicion, zopyron, or ocimoïdes: three remediesib.88.The clematis centunculus: three remedies5689.The clematis echites, or lagineib.90.The Egyptian clematis, daphnoïdes, or polygonoïdes: two remedies5791.Different opinions on dracontiumib.92.The aron: thirteen remedies5893.The dracunculus: two remedies6094.The arisaros: three remediesib.95.The millefolium or myriophyllon: seven remedies6196.The pseudobunion: four remediesib.97.The myrrhis, myriza, or myrrha: seven remediesib.98.The onobrychis: three remedies6299.Coracesta and calliciaib.100.The minsas or corinthia: one remedy63101.The aproxis: six remediesib.102.The aglaophotis or marmaritis. The achæmenis or hippophobas. The theobrotion or semnion. The adamantis. The arianis. The therionarca. The ætheopis or merois. The ophiusa. The thalassegle or potamaugis. The theangelis. The gelotophyllis. The hestiatoris or protomedia. The casignetes or dionysonymphas. The helianthes or heliocallis. The hermesias. The æschynomene. The crocis. The œnotheris. The anacampseros64103.The eriphia67104.The wool plant: one remedy. The lactoris: one remedy. The militaris: one remedy68105.The stratiotes: five remediesib.106.A plant growing on the head of a statue: one remedyib.107.A plant growing on the banks of a river: one remedy69108.The herb called lingua: one remedyib.109.Plants that take root in a sieve: one remedyib.110.Plants growing upon dunghills: one remedyib.111.Plants that have been moistened with the urine of a dog: one remedyib.112.The rodarum: three remediesib.113.The plant called impia: two remedies70114.The plant called Venus’ comb: one remedyib.115.The exedum. The plant called notia: two remedies71116.The philanthropos: one remedy. The lappa canaria: two remediesib.117.Tordylon or syreon: three remediesib.118.Gramen: seventeen remedies72119.Dactylos: five remedies73120.Fenugreek or silicia: thirty-one remedies74BOOK XXV.THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WILD PLANTS.1.When the wild plants were first brought into use772.The Latin authors who have written upon these plants783.At what period the Romans acquired some knowledge of this subjectib.4.Greek authors who have delineated the plants in colours805.The first Greek authors who wrote upon plantsib.6.Why a few of the plants only have been used medicinally. Plants, the medicinal properties of which have been miraculously discovered. The cynorrhodos: two remedies. The plant called dracunculus: one remedy. The britannica: five remedies837.What diseases are attended with the greatest pain. Names of persons who have discovered famous plants868.Moly: three remedies879.The dodecatheos: one remedy8810.The pæonia, pentorobus, or glycyside: one remedyib.11.The panaces asclepion: two remedies8912.The panaces heracleon: three remedies9013.The panaces chironion: four remediesib.14.The panaces centaurion or pharnacion: three remediesib.15.The heracleon siderion: four remedies9116.The ampelos chironia: one remedyib.17.Hyoscyamos, known also as the apollinaris or altercum; five varieties of it: three remediesib.18.Linoxostis, parthenion, hermupoa, or mercurialis: two varieties of it: twenty-two remedies9219.The achilleos, sideritis, panaces heracleon, millefolium, or scopæ regiæ; six varieties of it: three remedies9420.The teucrion, hemionion, or splenion: two remedies9521.Melampodium, hellebore, or veratrum; three varieties of it. The way in which it is gathered, and how the quality of it is tested9622.Twenty-four remedies derived from black hellebore. How it should be taken9823.Twenty-three remedies derived from white hellebore9924.Eighty-eight observations upon the two kinds of hellebore10025.To what persons hellebore should never be administered10126.The mithridatia10227.The scordotis or scordion: four remediesib.28.The polemonia, philetæria, or chiliodynamus: six remediesib.29.The eupatoria: one remedy10330.Centaurion or chironion: twenty remediesib.31.The centaurion lepton, or libadion, known also as fel terræ: twenty-two remedies10432.The centauris triorchis: two remediesib.33.Clymenus: two remedies10534.Gentian: thirteen remediesib.35.The lysimachia: eight remedies10636.Artemisia, parthenis, botrys, or ambrosia: five remediesib.37.Nymphæa, heracleon, rhopalon, or madon; two varieties of it: four remedies10738.Two varieties of euphorbia: four remedies. The chamelæaib.39.Two varieties of the plantago: forty-six remedies10940.Buglossos; three remediesib.41.Cynoglossos: three remedies11042.The buphthalmos or cachla: one remedyib.43.Plants which have been discovered by certain nations. The scythice: one remedyib.44.The hippace: three remedies11145.The ischæmon: two remediesib.46.The cestros, psychotrophon, vettonica, or serratula: forty-eight remediesib.47.The cantabrica: two remedies11248.Consiligo: one remedyib.49.The iberis: seven remedies11350.Plants which have been discovered by certain animals. Chelidonia: six remedies11451.The dog-plant: one remedyib.52.The elaphoboscon11553.Dictamnon; eight remedies. Pseudodictamnon or chondris. In what places the most powerful plants are found. How that milk is drunk in Arcadia for the beneficial effects of the plants upon which the cattle feedib.54.The aristolochia, clematitis, cretica, plistolochia, lochia polyrrhizos, or apple of the earth: twenty-two remedies11655.The employment of these plants for injuries inflicted by serpents11856.The argemonia: four remedies11957.Agaric: thirty-three remedies12058.The echios; three varieties of it: two remediesib.59.Hierabotane, peristereon, or verbenaca; two varieties of it: ten remedies12160.The blattaria: one remedy12261.Lemonium: one remedyib.62.Quinquefolium, known also as pentapetes, pentaphyllon, or chamæzelon: thirty-three remediesib.63.The sparganion: one remedy12364.Four varieties of the daucus: eighteen remediesib.65.The therionarca: two remedies12466.The persolata or areion: eight remediesib.67.Cyclaminos or tuber terræ: twelve remedies12568.The cyclaminos cissanthemos: four remediesib.69.The cyclaminos chamæcissos: three remedies12670.Peucedanum: twenty-eight remediesib.71.Ebulum: six remedies12772.Polemonia: one remedyib.73.Phlomos or verbascum: fifteen remediesib.74.The phlomis: one remedy. The lychnitis or thryallisib.75.The thelyphonon or scorpio: one remedy12876.The phrynion, neuras, or poterion: one remedyib.77.The alisma, damasonion, or lyron: seventeen remedies12978.Peristereos: six remedies13079.Remedies against certain poisonsib.80.The antirrhinum, anarrhinon, or lychnis agria: three remedies13181.Euclea: one remedyib.82.The pericarpum; two varieties of it: two remediesib.83.Remedies for diseases of the head. Nymphæa heraclia: two remedies13284.The lingulaca: one remedyib.85.The cacalia or leontice: three remedies13386.The callitrichos: one remedyib.87.Hyssop: ten remediesib.88.The lonchitis: four remedies13489.The xiphion or phasganion: four remediesib.90.Psyllion, cynoïdes, crystallion, sicelicon, or cynomyia; sixteen remedies. Thryselinum: one remedy13591.Remedies for diseases of the eyes13692.The anagallis, or corchoron; two varieties of it: six remediesib.93.The ægilops: two remedies13894.Mandragora, circæon, morion, or hippophlomos; two varieties of it: twenty-four remediesib.95.Hemlock: thirteen remedies14096.Crethmos agrios: one remedyib.97.Molybdæna: one remedyib.98.The first kind of capnos, known also as chicken’s foot: one remedy14299.The arborescent capnos: three remediesib.100.The acoron or agrion: fourteen remediesib.101.The cotyledon: two varieties of it: sixty-one remedies143102.The greater aizoüm, also called buphthalmos, zoöphthalmos, stergethron, hypogeson, ambrosion, amcrimnon, seduni magnum, or digitellus: thirty-six remedies. The smaller aizoüm, also called erithales, trithales, chrysothales, isoëtes or sedum: thirty-two remediesib.103.The andrachle agria or illecebra: thirty-two remedies144104.A remedy for diseases of the nostrils145105.Remedies for diseases of the teethib.106.Erigeron, pappus, acanthis, or senecio: eight remedies146107.The ephemeron: two remedies147108.The labrum Venereum: one remedy148109.The batrachion, ranunculus, or strumus; four varieties of it: fourteen remediesib.110.Remedial preparations for offensive breath: two kinds of them150BOOK XXVI.A CONTINUATION OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM PLANTS, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO PARTICULAR DISEASES.1.New forms of disease1522.The nature of lichenib.3.At what period lichen first made its appearance in Italyib.4.Carbuncle1545.Elephantiasisib.6.Colic1557.The new system of medicine: Asclepiades the physician1568.The changes effected by Asclepiades in the practice of medicine1579.Remarks in dispraise of the practices of magic15910.Lichen: five remedies16011.Quinzy16112.Scrofulaib.13.The plant called bellis: two remedies16214.The condurdumib.15.Cough16316.Bechion, otherwise known as arcion, chamæleuce, or tussilago: three remedies16417.The bechion, known also as salvia: four remediesib.18.Affections of the side, chest, and stomachib.19.Molon or syron. Amomum16520.The ephedra or anabasis; three remedies16621.Geum; three remediesib.22.Tripolium: three remedies16723.The gromphænaib.24.The malundrum: two remediesib.25.Chalcetum; two remedies. Molemonium; one remedy16826.Halus or cotonea: five remedies16927.The chamædrops: one remedy. The stœchas: one remedyib.28.Remedies for diseases of the bellyib.29.The astragalus: six remedies17030.Ladanum: eighteen remedies17131.Chondris or pseudodictamnon: one remedy. Hypocisthis or orobethron; two varieties: eight remedies17232.Laver or sion: two remediesib.33.Potamogiton: eight remedies. The statice: three remediesib.34.The ceratia: two remedies. Leontopodion, leuceoron, doripetron, or thorybethron. Lagopus: three remedies17335.Epithymon or hippopheos; eight remedies17436.Pycnocomon; four remedies17537.Polypodion; three remediesib.38.Scammony; eight remedies17639.The tithymalos characias17740.The tithymalos myrtites, or caryites; twenty-one remedies17841.The tithymalos paralios, or tithymalis; four remedies17942.The tithymalos helioscopios; eighteen remediesib.43.The tithymalos cyparissias; eighteen remedies18044.The tithymalos platyphyllos, corymbites, or amygdalites; three remediesib.45.The tithymalos dendroïdes, cobios, or leptophyllos; eighteen remediesib.46.The apios ischas, or raphanos agria; two remediesib.47.Remedies for griping pains in the bowels18148.Remedies for diseases of the spleenib.49.Remedies for calculi and diseases of the bladder18250.Crethmos; eleven remedies. Cachry18351.The anthyllion; two remedies. The anthyllis; two remedies18452.Cepæa; one remedyib.53.Hypericon, chamæpitys, or corison; nine remedies18554.Caros or hypericon; ten remediesib.55.The callithrix; one remedy. The perpressa; one remedy. The chrysanthemum; one remedy. The anthemis; one remedy18656.Silaus; one remedyib.57.The plant of Fulvius18758.Remedies for diseases of the testes and of the fundamentib.59.Inguinalis or argemo18860.Remedies for inflamed tumours. Chrysippios; one remedyib.61.Aphrodisiacs and antaphrodisiacs18962.The orchis or serapias; five medicinal properties. Satyrionib.63.Satyrion; three medicinal properties. Satyrion erythraïcon; four medicinal properties19064.Remedies for the gout and diseases of the feet19265.Lappago or mollugo; one remedy. Asperugo; one remedyib.66.Phycos thalassion or sea-weed; three varieties of it. Lappa boaria19367.Maladies which attack the whole of the body19468.The geranion, myrrhis or myrtis; three varieties of it: six remedies19569.The onotheras or onear; three remedies19670.Remedies for epilepsyib.71.Remedies for fevers19772.Remedies for phrenitis, lethargy; and carbuncles19873.Remedies for dropsy. Acte or ebulum. Chamæacte.ib.74.Remedies for erysipelas19975.Remedies for sprains20076.Remedies for jaundiceib.77.Remedies for boils20178.Remedies for fistulaib.79.Remedies for abscesses and hard tumoursib.80.Remedies for burns20281.Remedies for diseases of the sinews and jointsib.82.Remedies for hæmorrhage20383.Hippuris, otherwise called ephedron, anabasis, or equisætum; three kinds of it; eighteen remediesib.84.Stephanomelis20585.Remedies for ruptures and convulsions. Erysithales; one remedyib.86.Remedies for phthiriasis20687.Remedies for ulcers and woundsib.88.Polycnemon; one remedy20989.Remedies for warts, and applications for the removal of scarsib.90.Remedies for female diseases21091.Arsenogonon; one medicinal property. Thelygonon; one medicinal property21392.Mastos; one remedy21493.Applications for the hair. Lysimachia. Ophrysib.BOOK XXVII.A DESCRIPTION OF PLANTS, AND OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THEM.1.Researches of the ancients upon this subject2172.Aconite, otherwise called thelyphonon, cammaron, pardalianches, or scorpio; four remedies2183.Æthiopis; four remedies2214.Ageraton; four remediesib.5.The aloe; twenty-nine remedies2226.Alcea; one remedy2247.The alypon; one remedyib.8.Alsine, a plant used for the same purposes as helxine; five remediesib.9.The androsaces; six remedies22510.Androsæmon or ascyron; six remediesib.11.Ambrosia, botrys, or artemisia; three remedies22612.The anonis or ononis; five remediesib.13.The anagyros or acopon; three remediesib.14.The anonymos; two remedies22715.Aparine, omphalocarpos, or philanthropos; three remediesib.16.The arction or arcturum; five remedies22817.The asplenon or hemionion; two remediesib.18.The asclepias; two remedies22919.The aster or bubonion; three remediesib.20.Ascyron and ascyroïdes; three remediesib.21.The aphaca; three remedies23022.Alcibium; one remedyib.23.Alectoroslophos or crista; two remediesib.24.Alum, also called symphyton petræon; fourteen remedies23125.Alga rufa or red sea-weed; one remedy23226.Actæa; one remedyib.27.The ampelos agria, or wild vine; four remediesib.28.Absinthium or wormwood; four varieties; forty-eight remediesib.29.Absinthium marinum or seriphum23530.The ballotes, melamprasion, or black leek; three remedies23631.Botrys, ambrosia, or artemisia; one remedyib.32.The brabyla; one remedyib.33.Bryon maritimum; five remediesib.34.The bupleuron; one remedy23735.The catanance; one observation upon it. The cemos; one observation upon itib.36.The calyx; three remedies23837.The calyx, known also as anchusa or onoclia; two remediesib.38.The circæa; three remediesib.39.The cirsion; one remedy23940.The cratægonon; two kinds of it; eight remediesib.41.The crocodileon; two remedies24042.The cynosorchis or orchis; four remediesib.43.The chrysolachanum; two varieties of it; three remedies. Coagulum terræ; two remedies24144.The cucubalus, strumus, or strychnon; six remediesib.45.The conferva; two remedies24246.The coccus Cnidius, or grain of Cnidos; two remediesib.47.The dipsacos; two remediesib.48.The dryopteris; two remedies24349.The dryophononib.50.The elatine; two remediesib.51.Empetros, by our people called calcifraga; four remedies24452.The epipactis or elleborine; two remediesib.53.The epimedion; three remediesib.54.The enneaphyllon; two remedies24555.Two varieties of filix or fern, known to the Greeks as pteris or blachnon, and as thelypteris or nymphæa pteris; eleven remediesib.56.Femur bubulum, or ox thigh24657.Galeopsis, galeobdolon, or galion; six remediesib.58.The glaux; one remedy24759.Glaucion; three remedies. Diaglaucia; two remediesib.60.The glycyside, pæonia, or pentorobos; twenty remedies24861.Gnaphalium or chamæzelon: six remedies24962.The gallidraga: one remedyib.63.Holcus or aristis25064.Hyoseris: one remedyib.65.The holosteon: three remediesib.66.The hippophæston: eight remediesib.67.The hypoglossa: one remedy25168.Hypecoönib.69.The Idæa herba or plant of Ida: four remediesib.70.The isopyron or phasiolon: two remediesib.71.The lathyris: two remedies25272.The leontopetalon or pardalion: two remediesib.73.The lycapsos: two remediesib.74.The lithospermum, exonychon, diospyron, or heracleos: two remedies25375.Lapidis muscus, or stone moss: one remedy25476.The limeum: one remedyib.77.The leuce, mesoleucon, or leucas: three remediesib.78.The leucographis: five remedies25579.The medion: three remediesib.80.The myosota or myosotis: three remediesib.81.The myagros: one remedy25682.The nyma: one remedyib.83.The natrix: one remedyib.84.Odontitis: one remedy25785.The othonna: one remedyib.86.The onosma: one propertyib.87.The onopordon: five remedies25888.The osyris: four remediesib.89.The oxys: two remediesib.90.The polyanthemum or batrachion: three remediesib.91.The polygonos, polygonatos, teuthalis, carcinethron, clema, or myrtopetalos, otherwise known as sanguinaria or orios: four varieties of it: forty remedies25992.The pancratium: twelve remedies26093.The peplis, syce, meconion, or mecon aphrodes: three remedies26194.The periclymenos: five remediesib.95.Pelecinon: one remedy26296.Polygala: one remedyib.97.Poterion, phrynion, or neuras: four remediesib.98.The phalangitis, phalangion, or leucacantha: four remedies26399.The phyteuma: one propertyib.100.The phyllon: one propertyib.101.The phellandrion: two remedies264102.The phalaris: two remediesib.103.The polyrrhizon: five remediesib.104.The proserpinaca: five remediesib.105.Rhacoma: thirty-six remedies265106.The reseda: two remediesib.107.The stœchas: three remedies266108.The solanum, by the Greeks called strychnon: two remedial propertiesib.109.Smyrnion: thirty-two remediesib.110.Telephion: four remedies267111.The trichomanes: five remedies268112.The thalictrum: one remedyib.113.Thlaspi and Persicon napy: four remediesib.114.The trachinia: one property269115.The tragonis or tragion: four remediesib.116.The tragos or scorpion: four remedies270117.The tragopogon or comeib.118.The ages of plantsib.119.How the greatest efficacy in plants may be ensured271120.Maladies peculiar to various nationsib.BOOK XXVIII.REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.1.Introduction2752.Remedies derived from man2763.Whether words are possessed of any healing efficacy2784.That prodigies and portents may be confirmed, or made of no effect2805.A description of various usages2836.Two hundred and twenty-six observations on remedies derived from man. Eight remedies derived from children2867.Properties of the human spittle2888.Remedies derived from the wax of the human ear2919.Remedies derived from the human hair, teeth, &c.ib.10.Remedies derived from the human blood, the sexual congress, &c.29211.Remedies derived from the deadib.12.Various reveries and devices of the magicians29313.Remedies derived from the human excretions29414.Remedies depending upon the human will29515.Remedies derived from sneezing29716.Remedies derived from the sexual congressib.17.Various other remedies29818.Remedies derived from the urine29919.Indications of health derived from the urine30120.Forty-one remedies derived from the female sexib.21.Remedies derived from woman’s milk30222.Remedies derived from the spittle of females30423.Facts connected with the menstrual dischargeib.24.Remedies derived from foreign animals: the elephant, eight remedies30725.Ten remedies derived from the lion30826.Ten remedies derived from the camelib.27.Seventy-nine remedies derived from the hyæna30928.Nineteen remedies derived from the crocodile31429.Fifteen remedies derived from the chamæleon31530.Four remedies derived from the scincus31831.Seven remedies derived from the hippopotamusib.32.Five remedies derived from the lynx31933.Remedies furnished in common by animals of the same class, whether wild or tame. Fifty-four medicinal uses of milk, with observations thereonib.34.Twelve remedies derived from cheese32235.Twenty remedies derived from butter32336.Oxygala: one remedy32437.The various uses of fat, and observations upon it, fifty-two in numberib.38.Suet32639.Marrow32740.Gallib.41.Blood32842.Peculiar remedies derived from various animals, and classified according to the maladies. Remedies against the poison of serpents, derived from the stag, the fawn, the ophion, the she-goat, the kid, and the assib.43.Remedies for the bite of the mad dog. Remedies derived from the calf, the he-goat, and various other animals33144.Remedies to be adopted against enchantments.ib.45.Remedies for poisons33246.Remedies for diseases of the head, and for alopecy33447.Remedies for affections of the eyes33548.Remedies for diseases and affections of the ears33749.Remedies for tooth-ache33850.Remedies for diseases of the face34051.Remedies for diseases of the tonsillary glands and for scrofula34252.Remedies for pains in the neck34353.Remedies for cough and for spitting of bloodib.54.Remedies for affections of the stomach34455.Remedies for liver complaints and for asthmaib.56.Remedies for pains in the loinsib.57.Remedies for affections of the spleen34558.Remedies for bowel complaints34659.Remedies for tenesmus, tapeworm, and affections of the colon34860.Remedies for affections of the bladder, and for urinary calculi34961.Remedies for diseases of the generative organs and of the fundament35062.Remedies for gout and for diseases of the feet35263.Remedies for epilepsy35364.Remedies for jaundice35465.Remedies for broken bonesib.66.Remedies for feversib.67.Remedies for melancholy, lethargy, and phthisis35568.Remedies for dropsy35669.Remedies for erysipelas, and for purulent eruptions35770.Remedies for sprains, indurations, and boilsib.71.Remedies for burns. The method of testing bull-glue; seven remedies derived from itib.72.Remedies for affections of the sinews and for contusions35873.Remedies for hæmorrhageib.74.Remedies for ulcers and carcinomatous sores35975.Remedies for the itch36076.Methods of extracting foreign substances which adhere body, and of restoring scars to their natural colourib.77.Remedies for female diseasesib.78.Remedies for the diseases of infants36479.Provocatives of sleep36580.Stimulants for the sexual passionsib.81.Remarkable facts relative to animals366BOOK XXIX.REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.1.The origin of the medical art3702.Particulars relative to Hippocrates. Date of the origin of clinical practice and of that of Iatraliptics3713.Particulars relative to Chrysippus and Erasistratusib.4.The Empiric branch of medicine3725.Particulars relative to Herophilus and other celebrated physicians. The various changes that have been made in the system of medicineib.6.Who first practised as a physician at Rome, and at what period3757.The opinions entertained by the Romans on the ancient physiciansib.8.Evils attendant upon the practice of medicine3769.Thirty-five remedies derived from wool38110.Thirty-two remedies derived from wool-grease38311.Twenty-two remedies derived from eggs38512.Serpents’ eggs38813.The method of preparing commagenum. Four remedies derived from it39014.Remedies derived from the dog39115.Remedies classified according to the different maladies. Remedies for injuries inflicted by serpents. Remedies derived from mice39216.Remedies derived from the weaselib.17.Remedies derived from bugsib.18.Particulars relative to the asp39419.Remedies derived from the basiliskib.20.Remedies derived from the dragon39521.Remedies derived from the viperib.22.Remedies derived from the other serpents39623.Remedies derived from the salamander39724.Remedies derived from birds, for injuries inflicted by serpents. Remedies derived from the vulture39825.Remedies derived from poultry39926.Remedies derived from other birds40027.Remedies for the bite of the phalangium. The several varieties of that insect, and of the spiderib.28.Remedies derived from the stellio, or spotted lizard40229.Remedies derived from various insects40330.Remedies derived from cantharidesib.31.Various counter-poisons40532.Remedies for the bite of the mad dogib.33.Remedies for other poisons40734.Remedies for alopecy40835.Remedies for lice and porrigo40936.Remedies for head-ache, and for wounds on the headib.37.Remedies for affections of the eyelids41038.Remedies for diseases of the eyes41139.Remedies for pains and diseases of the ears416BOOK XXX.REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.1.The origin of the magic art4212.When and where the art of magic originated: by what persons it was practised4223.Whether magic was ever practised in Italy. At what period the senate first forbade human sacrifices4254.The Druids of the Gallic provinces4265.The various branches of magic4276.The subterfuges practised by the magicians4287.Opinions of the magicians relative to the mole. Five remedies derived from it4298.The other remedies derived from living creatures, classified according to the respective diseases. Remedies for tooth-ache4309.Remedies for offensive odours and sores of the mouth43210.Remedies for spots upon the faceib.11.Remedies for affections of the throat43312.Remedies for quinzy and scrofula43413.Remedies for diseases of the shoulders43614.Remedies for pains in the viscera43715.Remedies for pains in the stomachib.16.Remedies for pains in the liver, and for spitting of blood43817.Remedies for affections of the spleen43918.Remedies for pains in the side and in the loins44019.Remedies for dysentery44120.Remedies for the iliac passion, and for other maladies of the bowels44221.Remedies for urinary calculi and affections of the bladder44322.Remedies for diseases of the fundament and of the generative organs44523.Remedies for gout and for diseases of the feet44624.Remedies for evils which are liable to affect the whole body44825.Remedies for cold shiverings44926.Remedies for paralysis45027.Remedies for epilepsyib.28.Remedies for jaundice45229.Remedies for phrenitisib.30.Remedies for fevers45331.Remedies for dropsy45632.Remedies for erysipelasib.33.Remedies for carbuncles45734.Remedies for boilsib.35.Remedies for burnsib.36.Remedies for affections of the sinewsib.37.Remedies for maladies of the nails and fingers45838.Methods for arresting hæmorrhageib.39.Remedies for ulcerous sores and woundsib.40.Remedies for broken bones46041.Applications for cicatrizations, and for the cure of morphew46142.Methods of extracting foreign substances from the bodyib.43.Remedies for female complaints46244.Methods of facilitating delivery46345.Methods of preserving the breasts from injury46446.Various kinds of depilatories46547.Remedies for the diseases of infantsib.48.Provocatives of sleep46749.Aphrodisiacs and antaphrodisiacsib.50.Remedies for phthiriasis, and for various other affections46851.Remedies for intoxicationib.52.Peculiarities relative to certain animals46953.Other marvellous facts connected with animalsib.BOOK XXXI.REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE AQUATIC PRODUCTIONS.1.Remarkable facts connected with water4712.The different properties of waters4723.Remedies derived from water4734.Waters productive of fecundity. Waters curative of insanity4745.Waters remedial for urinary calculiib.6.Waters curative of wounds4757.Waters preventive of abortionib.8.Waters which remove morphewib.9.Waters which colour the hair47610.Waters which colour the human bodyib.11.Waters which aid the memory, or are productive of forgetfulness47712.Waters which sharpen or dull the senses. Waters which improve the voiceib.13.Waters which cause a distaste for wine. Waters which produce inebrietyib.14.Waters which serve as a substitute for oil47815.Salt and bitter watersib.16.Waters which throw up stones. Waters which cause laughter and weeping. Waters which are said to be curative of loveib.17.Waters which preserve their warmth for three days47918.Other marvellous facts connected with water. Water in which everything will sink. Waters in which nothing will sinkib.19.Deadly waters. Poisonous fishes48020.Waters which petrify themselves, or cause other objects to petrify48221.The wholesomeness of watersib.22.The impurities of water48423.The modes of testing water48524.The Marcian Waters48725.The Virgin Waters48826.The method of searching for waterib.27.Signs indicative of the presence of water48928.Differences in waters, according to the nature of the soilib.29.The qualities of water at the different seasons of the year49130.Historical observations upon waters which have suddenly made their appearance or suddenly ceased49231.The method of conveying water49432.How mineral waters should be usedib.33.The uses of sea-water. The advantages of a sea-voyage49634.How artificial sea-water may be made in places at a distance from the sea49835.How thalassomeli is madeib.36.How hydromeli is madeib.37.Methods of providing against the inconvenience of drinking suspected water49938.Six remedies derived from moss. Remedies derived from sandib.39.The various kinds of salt; the methods of preparing it, and the remedies derived from it. Two hundred and four observations thereupon50040.Muria50341.The various properties of salt: one hundred and twenty historical remarks relative thereto50442.Flower of salt: twenty remedies. Salsugo: two remedies50643.Garum: fifteen remedies50744.Alex: eight remedies50845.The nature of salt50946.The various kinds of nitrum, the methods of preparing it, and the remedies derived from it: two hundred and twenty-one observations thereon51247.Sponges, and the remedies derived from them: ninety-two observations thereon519
The antipathies and sympathies which exist among trees and plants
The lotus of Italy: six remedies
Acorns: thirteen remedies
The kermes-berry of the holm-oak: three remedies
Gall-nuts: twenty-three remedies
Mistletoe: eleven remedies
The excrescences which grow on the robur: one remedy. The cerrus: eight remedies
The cork-tree: two remedies
The beech: four remedies
The cypress: twenty-three remedies
The cedar: thirteen remedies
Cedrides: ten remedies
Galbanum: twenty-three remedies
Hammoniacum: twenty-four remedies
Storax: ten remedies
Spondylium: seventeen remedies
Sphagnos, sphacos, or bryon: five remedies
The terebinth: six remedies
The pitch-tree and the larch: eight remedies
The chamæpitys: ten remedies
The pityusa: six remedies
Resins: twenty-two remedies
Pitch: twenty-three remedies
Pisselæon and palimpissa: sixteen remedies
Pissasphaltos: two remedies
Zopissa: one remedy
The torch-tree: one remedy
The lentisk: twenty-two remedies
The plane-tree: twenty-five remedies
The ash: five remedies
The maple: one remedy
The poplar: eight remedies
The elm: sixteen remedies
The linden-tree: five remedies
The elder: fifteen remedies
The juniper: twenty-one remedies
The willow: fourteen remedies. The willow of Ameria: one remedy
The vitex: thirty-three remedies
The erica: one remedy
The broom: five remedies
The myrica, otherwise called the tamarica, or tamarix: three remedies
The brya: twenty-nine remedies
The blood-red shrub: one remedy
The siler: three remedies
The privet: eight remedies
The alder: one remedy
The several varieties of the ivy: thirty-nine remedies
The cisthos: five remedies
The cissos erythranos: two remedies. The chamæcissos: two remedies. The smilax: three remedies. The clematis: eighteen remedies
The reed: nineteen remedies
The papyrus, and the paper made from it: three remedies
The ebony: five remedies
The rhododendron: one remedy
The rhus or sumach-tree; two varieties of it: eight remedies. Stomatice
Rhus erythros: nine remedies
The erythrodanus: eleven remedies
The alysson: two remedies
The radicula or struthion: thirteen remedies. The apocynum: two observations upon it
Rosemary: eighteen remedies
The seed called cachrys.
The herb savin: seven remedies
Selago: two remedies
Samolus: two remedies
Gum: eleven remedies
The Egyptian or Arabian thorn: four remedies
The white thorn: two remedies. The acanthion: one remedy
Gum acacia: eighteen remedies
Aspalathos: one remedy
The erysisceptrum, adipsatheon, or diaxylon: eight remedies
The thorn called appendix: two remedies. The pyracantha: one remedy
The paliurus: ten remedies
The agrifolia. The aquifolia: one remedy. The yew: one property belonging to it
The bramble: fifty-one remedies
The cynosbatos: three remedies
The Idæan bramble
The rhamnos; two varieties of it: five remedies
Lycium: eighteen remedies
Sarcocolla: two remedies
Oporice: two remedies
The trixago, chamædrys, chamædrops, or teucria: sixteen remedies
The chamædaphne: five remedies
The chamelæa: six remedies
The chamæsyce: eight remedies
The chamæcissos: one remedy
The chamæleuce, farfarum, or farfugium: one remedy
The chamæpeuce: five remedies. The chamæcyparissos: two remedies. The ampeloprason: six remedies. The stachys: one remedy
The clinopodion, cleonicion, zopyron, or ocimoïdes: three remedies
The clematis centunculus: three remedies
The clematis echites, or lagine
The Egyptian clematis, daphnoïdes, or polygonoïdes: two remedies
Different opinions on dracontium
The aron: thirteen remedies
The dracunculus: two remedies
The arisaros: three remedies
The millefolium or myriophyllon: seven remedies
The pseudobunion: four remedies
The myrrhis, myriza, or myrrha: seven remedies
The onobrychis: three remedies
Coracesta and callicia
The minsas or corinthia: one remedy
The aproxis: six remedies
The aglaophotis or marmaritis. The achæmenis or hippophobas. The theobrotion or semnion. The adamantis. The arianis. The therionarca. The ætheopis or merois. The ophiusa. The thalassegle or potamaugis. The theangelis. The gelotophyllis. The hestiatoris or protomedia. The casignetes or dionysonymphas. The helianthes or heliocallis. The hermesias. The æschynomene. The crocis. The œnotheris. The anacampseros
The eriphia
The wool plant: one remedy. The lactoris: one remedy. The militaris: one remedy
The stratiotes: five remedies
A plant growing on the head of a statue: one remedy
A plant growing on the banks of a river: one remedy
The herb called lingua: one remedy
Plants that take root in a sieve: one remedy
Plants growing upon dunghills: one remedy
Plants that have been moistened with the urine of a dog: one remedy
The rodarum: three remedies
The plant called impia: two remedies
The plant called Venus’ comb: one remedy
The exedum. The plant called notia: two remedies
The philanthropos: one remedy. The lappa canaria: two remedies
Tordylon or syreon: three remedies
Gramen: seventeen remedies
Dactylos: five remedies
Fenugreek or silicia: thirty-one remedies
When the wild plants were first brought into use
The Latin authors who have written upon these plants
At what period the Romans acquired some knowledge of this subject
Greek authors who have delineated the plants in colours
The first Greek authors who wrote upon plants
Why a few of the plants only have been used medicinally. Plants, the medicinal properties of which have been miraculously discovered. The cynorrhodos: two remedies. The plant called dracunculus: one remedy. The britannica: five remedies
What diseases are attended with the greatest pain. Names of persons who have discovered famous plants
Moly: three remedies
The dodecatheos: one remedy
The pæonia, pentorobus, or glycyside: one remedy
The panaces asclepion: two remedies
The panaces heracleon: three remedies
The panaces chironion: four remedies
The panaces centaurion or pharnacion: three remedies
The heracleon siderion: four remedies
The ampelos chironia: one remedy
Hyoscyamos, known also as the apollinaris or altercum; five varieties of it: three remedies
Linoxostis, parthenion, hermupoa, or mercurialis: two varieties of it: twenty-two remedies
The achilleos, sideritis, panaces heracleon, millefolium, or scopæ regiæ; six varieties of it: three remedies
The teucrion, hemionion, or splenion: two remedies
Melampodium, hellebore, or veratrum; three varieties of it. The way in which it is gathered, and how the quality of it is tested
Twenty-four remedies derived from black hellebore. How it should be taken
Twenty-three remedies derived from white hellebore
Eighty-eight observations upon the two kinds of hellebore
To what persons hellebore should never be administered
The mithridatia
The scordotis or scordion: four remedies
The polemonia, philetæria, or chiliodynamus: six remedies
The eupatoria: one remedy
Centaurion or chironion: twenty remedies
The centaurion lepton, or libadion, known also as fel terræ: twenty-two remedies
The centauris triorchis: two remedies
Clymenus: two remedies
Gentian: thirteen remedies
The lysimachia: eight remedies
Artemisia, parthenis, botrys, or ambrosia: five remedies
Nymphæa, heracleon, rhopalon, or madon; two varieties of it: four remedies
Two varieties of euphorbia: four remedies. The chamelæa
Two varieties of the plantago: forty-six remedies
Buglossos; three remedies
Cynoglossos: three remedies
The buphthalmos or cachla: one remedy
Plants which have been discovered by certain nations. The scythice: one remedy
The hippace: three remedies
The ischæmon: two remedies
The cestros, psychotrophon, vettonica, or serratula: forty-eight remedies
The cantabrica: two remedies
Consiligo: one remedy
The iberis: seven remedies
Plants which have been discovered by certain animals. Chelidonia: six remedies
The dog-plant: one remedy
The elaphoboscon
Dictamnon; eight remedies. Pseudodictamnon or chondris. In what places the most powerful plants are found. How that milk is drunk in Arcadia for the beneficial effects of the plants upon which the cattle feed
The aristolochia, clematitis, cretica, plistolochia, lochia polyrrhizos, or apple of the earth: twenty-two remedies
The employment of these plants for injuries inflicted by serpents
The argemonia: four remedies
Agaric: thirty-three remedies
The echios; three varieties of it: two remedies
Hierabotane, peristereon, or verbenaca; two varieties of it: ten remedies
The blattaria: one remedy
Lemonium: one remedy
Quinquefolium, known also as pentapetes, pentaphyllon, or chamæzelon: thirty-three remedies
The sparganion: one remedy
Four varieties of the daucus: eighteen remedies
The therionarca: two remedies
The persolata or areion: eight remedies
Cyclaminos or tuber terræ: twelve remedies
The cyclaminos cissanthemos: four remedies
The cyclaminos chamæcissos: three remedies
Peucedanum: twenty-eight remedies
Ebulum: six remedies
Polemonia: one remedy
Phlomos or verbascum: fifteen remedies
The phlomis: one remedy. The lychnitis or thryallis
The thelyphonon or scorpio: one remedy
The phrynion, neuras, or poterion: one remedy
The alisma, damasonion, or lyron: seventeen remedies
Peristereos: six remedies
Remedies against certain poisons
The antirrhinum, anarrhinon, or lychnis agria: three remedies
Euclea: one remedy
The pericarpum; two varieties of it: two remedies
Remedies for diseases of the head. Nymphæa heraclia: two remedies
The lingulaca: one remedy
The cacalia or leontice: three remedies
The callitrichos: one remedy
Hyssop: ten remedies
The lonchitis: four remedies
The xiphion or phasganion: four remedies
Psyllion, cynoïdes, crystallion, sicelicon, or cynomyia; sixteen remedies. Thryselinum: one remedy
Remedies for diseases of the eyes
The anagallis, or corchoron; two varieties of it: six remedies
The ægilops: two remedies
Mandragora, circæon, morion, or hippophlomos; two varieties of it: twenty-four remedies
Hemlock: thirteen remedies
Crethmos agrios: one remedy
Molybdæna: one remedy
The first kind of capnos, known also as chicken’s foot: one remedy
The arborescent capnos: three remedies
The acoron or agrion: fourteen remedies
The cotyledon: two varieties of it: sixty-one remedies
The greater aizoüm, also called buphthalmos, zoöphthalmos, stergethron, hypogeson, ambrosion, amcrimnon, seduni magnum, or digitellus: thirty-six remedies. The smaller aizoüm, also called erithales, trithales, chrysothales, isoëtes or sedum: thirty-two remedies
The andrachle agria or illecebra: thirty-two remedies
A remedy for diseases of the nostrils
Remedies for diseases of the teeth
Erigeron, pappus, acanthis, or senecio: eight remedies
The ephemeron: two remedies
The labrum Venereum: one remedy
The batrachion, ranunculus, or strumus; four varieties of it: fourteen remedies
Remedial preparations for offensive breath: two kinds of them
New forms of disease
The nature of lichen
At what period lichen first made its appearance in Italy
Carbuncle
Elephantiasis
Colic
The new system of medicine: Asclepiades the physician
The changes effected by Asclepiades in the practice of medicine
Remarks in dispraise of the practices of magic
Lichen: five remedies
Quinzy
Scrofula
The plant called bellis: two remedies
The condurdum
Cough
Bechion, otherwise known as arcion, chamæleuce, or tussilago: three remedies
The bechion, known also as salvia: four remedies
Affections of the side, chest, and stomach
Molon or syron. Amomum
The ephedra or anabasis; three remedies
Geum; three remedies
Tripolium: three remedies
The gromphæna
The malundrum: two remedies
Chalcetum; two remedies. Molemonium; one remedy
Halus or cotonea: five remedies
The chamædrops: one remedy. The stœchas: one remedy
Remedies for diseases of the belly
The astragalus: six remedies
Ladanum: eighteen remedies
Chondris or pseudodictamnon: one remedy. Hypocisthis or orobethron; two varieties: eight remedies
Laver or sion: two remedies
Potamogiton: eight remedies. The statice: three remedies
The ceratia: two remedies. Leontopodion, leuceoron, doripetron, or thorybethron. Lagopus: three remedies
Epithymon or hippopheos; eight remedies
Pycnocomon; four remedies
Polypodion; three remedies
Scammony; eight remedies
The tithymalos characias
The tithymalos myrtites, or caryites; twenty-one remedies
The tithymalos paralios, or tithymalis; four remedies
The tithymalos helioscopios; eighteen remedies
The tithymalos cyparissias; eighteen remedies
The tithymalos platyphyllos, corymbites, or amygdalites; three remedies
The tithymalos dendroïdes, cobios, or leptophyllos; eighteen remedies
The apios ischas, or raphanos agria; two remedies
Remedies for griping pains in the bowels
Remedies for diseases of the spleen
Remedies for calculi and diseases of the bladder
Crethmos; eleven remedies. Cachry
The anthyllion; two remedies. The anthyllis; two remedies
Cepæa; one remedy
Hypericon, chamæpitys, or corison; nine remedies
Caros or hypericon; ten remedies
The callithrix; one remedy. The perpressa; one remedy. The chrysanthemum; one remedy. The anthemis; one remedy
Silaus; one remedy
The plant of Fulvius
Remedies for diseases of the testes and of the fundament
Inguinalis or argemo
Remedies for inflamed tumours. Chrysippios; one remedy
Aphrodisiacs and antaphrodisiacs
The orchis or serapias; five medicinal properties. Satyrion
Satyrion; three medicinal properties. Satyrion erythraïcon; four medicinal properties
Remedies for the gout and diseases of the feet
Lappago or mollugo; one remedy. Asperugo; one remedy
Phycos thalassion or sea-weed; three varieties of it. Lappa boaria
Maladies which attack the whole of the body
The geranion, myrrhis or myrtis; three varieties of it: six remedies
The onotheras or onear; three remedies
Remedies for epilepsy
Remedies for fevers
Remedies for phrenitis, lethargy; and carbuncles
Remedies for dropsy. Acte or ebulum. Chamæacte.
Remedies for erysipelas
Remedies for sprains
Remedies for jaundice
Remedies for boils
Remedies for fistula
Remedies for abscesses and hard tumours
Remedies for burns
Remedies for diseases of the sinews and joints
Remedies for hæmorrhage
Hippuris, otherwise called ephedron, anabasis, or equisætum; three kinds of it; eighteen remedies
Stephanomelis
Remedies for ruptures and convulsions. Erysithales; one remedy
Remedies for phthiriasis
Remedies for ulcers and wounds
Polycnemon; one remedy
Remedies for warts, and applications for the removal of scars
Remedies for female diseases
Arsenogonon; one medicinal property. Thelygonon; one medicinal property
Mastos; one remedy
Applications for the hair. Lysimachia. Ophrys
Researches of the ancients upon this subject
Aconite, otherwise called thelyphonon, cammaron, pardalianches, or scorpio; four remedies
Æthiopis; four remedies
Ageraton; four remedies
The aloe; twenty-nine remedies
Alcea; one remedy
The alypon; one remedy
Alsine, a plant used for the same purposes as helxine; five remedies
The androsaces; six remedies
Androsæmon or ascyron; six remedies
Ambrosia, botrys, or artemisia; three remedies
The anonis or ononis; five remedies
The anagyros or acopon; three remedies
The anonymos; two remedies
Aparine, omphalocarpos, or philanthropos; three remedies
The arction or arcturum; five remedies
The asplenon or hemionion; two remedies
The asclepias; two remedies
The aster or bubonion; three remedies
Ascyron and ascyroïdes; three remedies
The aphaca; three remedies
Alcibium; one remedy
Alectoroslophos or crista; two remedies
Alum, also called symphyton petræon; fourteen remedies
Alga rufa or red sea-weed; one remedy
Actæa; one remedy
The ampelos agria, or wild vine; four remedies
Absinthium or wormwood; four varieties; forty-eight remedies
Absinthium marinum or seriphum
The ballotes, melamprasion, or black leek; three remedies
Botrys, ambrosia, or artemisia; one remedy
The brabyla; one remedy
Bryon maritimum; five remedies
The bupleuron; one remedy
The catanance; one observation upon it. The cemos; one observation upon it
The calyx; three remedies
The calyx, known also as anchusa or onoclia; two remedies
The circæa; three remedies
The cirsion; one remedy
The cratægonon; two kinds of it; eight remedies
The crocodileon; two remedies
The cynosorchis or orchis; four remedies
The chrysolachanum; two varieties of it; three remedies. Coagulum terræ; two remedies
The cucubalus, strumus, or strychnon; six remedies
The conferva; two remedies
The coccus Cnidius, or grain of Cnidos; two remedies
The dipsacos; two remedies
The dryopteris; two remedies
The dryophonon
The elatine; two remedies
Empetros, by our people called calcifraga; four remedies
The epipactis or elleborine; two remedies
The epimedion; three remedies
The enneaphyllon; two remedies
Two varieties of filix or fern, known to the Greeks as pteris or blachnon, and as thelypteris or nymphæa pteris; eleven remedies
Femur bubulum, or ox thigh
Galeopsis, galeobdolon, or galion; six remedies
The glaux; one remedy
Glaucion; three remedies. Diaglaucia; two remedies
The glycyside, pæonia, or pentorobos; twenty remedies
Gnaphalium or chamæzelon: six remedies
The gallidraga: one remedy
Holcus or aristis
Hyoseris: one remedy
The holosteon: three remedies
The hippophæston: eight remedies
The hypoglossa: one remedy
Hypecoön
The Idæa herba or plant of Ida: four remedies
The isopyron or phasiolon: two remedies
The lathyris: two remedies
The leontopetalon or pardalion: two remedies
The lycapsos: two remedies
The lithospermum, exonychon, diospyron, or heracleos: two remedies
Lapidis muscus, or stone moss: one remedy
The limeum: one remedy
The leuce, mesoleucon, or leucas: three remedies
The leucographis: five remedies
The medion: three remedies
The myosota or myosotis: three remedies
The myagros: one remedy
The nyma: one remedy
The natrix: one remedy
Odontitis: one remedy
The othonna: one remedy
The onosma: one property
The onopordon: five remedies
The osyris: four remedies
The oxys: two remedies
The polyanthemum or batrachion: three remedies
The polygonos, polygonatos, teuthalis, carcinethron, clema, or myrtopetalos, otherwise known as sanguinaria or orios: four varieties of it: forty remedies
The pancratium: twelve remedies
The peplis, syce, meconion, or mecon aphrodes: three remedies
The periclymenos: five remedies
Pelecinon: one remedy
Polygala: one remedy
Poterion, phrynion, or neuras: four remedies
The phalangitis, phalangion, or leucacantha: four remedies
The phyteuma: one property
The phyllon: one property
The phellandrion: two remedies
The phalaris: two remedies
The polyrrhizon: five remedies
The proserpinaca: five remedies
Rhacoma: thirty-six remedies
The reseda: two remedies
The stœchas: three remedies
The solanum, by the Greeks called strychnon: two remedial properties
Smyrnion: thirty-two remedies
Telephion: four remedies
The trichomanes: five remedies
The thalictrum: one remedy
Thlaspi and Persicon napy: four remedies
The trachinia: one property
The tragonis or tragion: four remedies
The tragos or scorpion: four remedies
The tragopogon or come
The ages of plants
How the greatest efficacy in plants may be ensured
Maladies peculiar to various nations
Introduction
Remedies derived from man
Whether words are possessed of any healing efficacy
That prodigies and portents may be confirmed, or made of no effect
A description of various usages
Two hundred and twenty-six observations on remedies derived from man. Eight remedies derived from children
Properties of the human spittle
Remedies derived from the wax of the human ear
Remedies derived from the human hair, teeth, &c.
Remedies derived from the human blood, the sexual congress, &c.
Remedies derived from the dead
Various reveries and devices of the magicians
Remedies derived from the human excretions
Remedies depending upon the human will
Remedies derived from sneezing
Remedies derived from the sexual congress
Various other remedies
Remedies derived from the urine
Indications of health derived from the urine
Forty-one remedies derived from the female sex
Remedies derived from woman’s milk
Remedies derived from the spittle of females
Facts connected with the menstrual discharge
Remedies derived from foreign animals: the elephant, eight remedies
Ten remedies derived from the lion
Ten remedies derived from the camel
Seventy-nine remedies derived from the hyæna
Nineteen remedies derived from the crocodile
Fifteen remedies derived from the chamæleon
Four remedies derived from the scincus
Seven remedies derived from the hippopotamus
Five remedies derived from the lynx
Remedies furnished in common by animals of the same class, whether wild or tame. Fifty-four medicinal uses of milk, with observations thereon
Twelve remedies derived from cheese
Twenty remedies derived from butter
Oxygala: one remedy
The various uses of fat, and observations upon it, fifty-two in number
Suet
Marrow
Gall
Blood
Peculiar remedies derived from various animals, and classified according to the maladies. Remedies against the poison of serpents, derived from the stag, the fawn, the ophion, the she-goat, the kid, and the ass
Remedies for the bite of the mad dog. Remedies derived from the calf, the he-goat, and various other animals
Remedies to be adopted against enchantments.
Remedies for poisons
Remedies for diseases of the head, and for alopecy
Remedies for affections of the eyes
Remedies for diseases and affections of the ears
Remedies for tooth-ache
Remedies for diseases of the face
Remedies for diseases of the tonsillary glands and for scrofula
Remedies for pains in the neck
Remedies for cough and for spitting of blood
Remedies for affections of the stomach
Remedies for liver complaints and for asthma
Remedies for pains in the loins
Remedies for affections of the spleen
Remedies for bowel complaints
Remedies for tenesmus, tapeworm, and affections of the colon
Remedies for affections of the bladder, and for urinary calculi
Remedies for diseases of the generative organs and of the fundament
Remedies for gout and for diseases of the feet
Remedies for epilepsy
Remedies for jaundice
Remedies for broken bones
Remedies for fevers
Remedies for melancholy, lethargy, and phthisis
Remedies for dropsy
Remedies for erysipelas, and for purulent eruptions
Remedies for sprains, indurations, and boils
Remedies for burns. The method of testing bull-glue; seven remedies derived from it
Remedies for affections of the sinews and for contusions
Remedies for hæmorrhage
Remedies for ulcers and carcinomatous sores
Remedies for the itch
Methods of extracting foreign substances which adhere body, and of restoring scars to their natural colour
Remedies for female diseases
Remedies for the diseases of infants
Provocatives of sleep
Stimulants for the sexual passions
Remarkable facts relative to animals
The origin of the medical art
Particulars relative to Hippocrates. Date of the origin of clinical practice and of that of Iatraliptics
Particulars relative to Chrysippus and Erasistratus
The Empiric branch of medicine
Particulars relative to Herophilus and other celebrated physicians. The various changes that have been made in the system of medicine
Who first practised as a physician at Rome, and at what period
The opinions entertained by the Romans on the ancient physicians
Evils attendant upon the practice of medicine
Thirty-five remedies derived from wool
Thirty-two remedies derived from wool-grease
Twenty-two remedies derived from eggs
Serpents’ eggs
The method of preparing commagenum. Four remedies derived from it
Remedies derived from the dog
Remedies classified according to the different maladies. Remedies for injuries inflicted by serpents. Remedies derived from mice
Remedies derived from the weasel
Remedies derived from bugs
Particulars relative to the asp
Remedies derived from the basilisk
Remedies derived from the dragon
Remedies derived from the viper
Remedies derived from the other serpents
Remedies derived from the salamander
Remedies derived from birds, for injuries inflicted by serpents. Remedies derived from the vulture
Remedies derived from poultry
Remedies derived from other birds
Remedies for the bite of the phalangium. The several varieties of that insect, and of the spider
Remedies derived from the stellio, or spotted lizard
Remedies derived from various insects
Remedies derived from cantharides
Various counter-poisons
Remedies for the bite of the mad dog
Remedies for other poisons
Remedies for alopecy
Remedies for lice and porrigo
Remedies for head-ache, and for wounds on the head
Remedies for affections of the eyelids
Remedies for diseases of the eyes
Remedies for pains and diseases of the ears
The origin of the magic art
When and where the art of magic originated: by what persons it was practised
Whether magic was ever practised in Italy. At what period the senate first forbade human sacrifices
The Druids of the Gallic provinces
The various branches of magic
The subterfuges practised by the magicians
Opinions of the magicians relative to the mole. Five remedies derived from it
The other remedies derived from living creatures, classified according to the respective diseases. Remedies for tooth-ache
Remedies for offensive odours and sores of the mouth
Remedies for spots upon the face
Remedies for affections of the throat
Remedies for quinzy and scrofula
Remedies for diseases of the shoulders
Remedies for pains in the viscera
Remedies for pains in the stomach
Remedies for pains in the liver, and for spitting of blood
Remedies for affections of the spleen
Remedies for pains in the side and in the loins
Remedies for dysentery
Remedies for the iliac passion, and for other maladies of the bowels
Remedies for urinary calculi and affections of the bladder
Remedies for diseases of the fundament and of the generative organs
Remedies for gout and for diseases of the feet
Remedies for evils which are liable to affect the whole body
Remedies for cold shiverings
Remedies for paralysis
Remedies for epilepsy
Remedies for jaundice
Remedies for phrenitis
Remedies for fevers
Remedies for dropsy
Remedies for erysipelas
Remedies for carbuncles
Remedies for boils
Remedies for burns
Remedies for affections of the sinews
Remedies for maladies of the nails and fingers
Methods for arresting hæmorrhage
Remedies for ulcerous sores and wounds
Remedies for broken bones
Applications for cicatrizations, and for the cure of morphew
Methods of extracting foreign substances from the body
Remedies for female complaints
Methods of facilitating delivery
Methods of preserving the breasts from injury
Various kinds of depilatories
Remedies for the diseases of infants
Provocatives of sleep
Aphrodisiacs and antaphrodisiacs
Remedies for phthiriasis, and for various other affections
Remedies for intoxication
Peculiarities relative to certain animals
Other marvellous facts connected with animals
Remarkable facts connected with water
The different properties of waters
Remedies derived from water
Waters productive of fecundity. Waters curative of insanity
Waters remedial for urinary calculi
Waters curative of wounds
Waters preventive of abortion
Waters which remove morphew
Waters which colour the hair
Waters which colour the human body
Waters which aid the memory, or are productive of forgetfulness
Waters which sharpen or dull the senses. Waters which improve the voice
Waters which cause a distaste for wine. Waters which produce inebriety
Waters which serve as a substitute for oil
Salt and bitter waters
Waters which throw up stones. Waters which cause laughter and weeping. Waters which are said to be curative of love
Waters which preserve their warmth for three days
Other marvellous facts connected with water. Water in which everything will sink. Waters in which nothing will sink
Deadly waters. Poisonous fishes
Waters which petrify themselves, or cause other objects to petrify
The wholesomeness of waters
The impurities of water
The modes of testing water
The Marcian Waters
The Virgin Waters
The method of searching for water
Signs indicative of the presence of water
Differences in waters, according to the nature of the soil
The qualities of water at the different seasons of the year
Historical observations upon waters which have suddenly made their appearance or suddenly ceased
The method of conveying water
How mineral waters should be used
The uses of sea-water. The advantages of a sea-voyage
How artificial sea-water may be made in places at a distance from the sea
How thalassomeli is made
How hydromeli is made
Methods of providing against the inconvenience of drinking suspected water
Six remedies derived from moss. Remedies derived from sand
The various kinds of salt; the methods of preparing it, and the remedies derived from it. Two hundred and four observations thereupon
Muria
The various properties of salt: one hundred and twenty historical remarks relative thereto
Flower of salt: twenty remedies. Salsugo: two remedies
Garum: fifteen remedies
Alex: eight remedies
The nature of salt
The various kinds of nitrum, the methods of preparing it, and the remedies derived from it: two hundred and twenty-one observations thereon
Sponges, and the remedies derived from them: ninety-two observations thereon