BOOK XXXII.REMEDIES DERIVED FROM AQUATIC ANIMALS.Chap.Page1.The power of Nature as manifested in antipathies. The echeneïs: two remedies12.The torpedo: nine remedies43.The sea-hare: five remediesib.4.Marvels of the Red Sea55.The instincts of fishes66.Marvellous properties belonging to certain fishes87.Places where fish eat from the handib.8.Places where fish recognize the human voice. Oracular responses given by fishib.9.Places where bitter fish are found, salt, or sweet910.When sea-fish were first eaten by the people of Rome. The ordinance of King Numa as to fish1011.Coral: forty-three remedies and observationsib.12.The antipathies and sympathies which exist between certain objects. The hatreds manifested by certain aquatic animals. The pastinaca: eight remedies. The galeos: fifteen remedies. The sur-mullet: fifteen remedies1213.Amphibious animals. Castoreum: sixty-six remedies and observations1314.The tortoise: sixty-six remedies and observations1515.Remedies derived from the aquatic animals, classified according to the respective diseases1816.Remedies for poisons, and for noxious spells. The dorade: four remedies. The sea-star: seven remedies1917.Remedies for the stings of serpents, for the bites of dogs, and for injuries indicted by venomous animals. The sea-dragon: three remedies. Twenty-five remedies derived from salted fish. The sarda: one remedy. Eleven remedies derived from cybium2018.The sea-frog: six remedies. The river-frog: fifty-two remedies. The bramble-frog: one remedy. Thirty-two observations on these animals2119.The enhydris: six remedies. The river-crab: fourteen remedies. The sea-crab: seven remedies. The river-snail: seven remedies. The coracinus: four remedies. The sea-pig: two remedies2320.The sea-calf: ten remedies. The muræna: one remedy. The hippocampus: nine remedies. The sea-urchin: eleven remedies2421.The various kinds of oysters: fifty-eight remedies and observations. Purples: nine remedies2522.Sea-weed: two remedies2823.Remedies for alopecy, change of colour in the hair, and ulcerations of the head. The sea-mouse: two remedies. The sea-scorpion: twelve remedies. The leech: seven remedies. The murex: thirteen remedies. The conchylium: five remedies2924.Remedies for diseases of the eyes and eyelids. Two remedies derived from the fat of fishes. The callionymus: three remedies. The gall of the coracinus: one remedy. The sæpia: twenty-four remedies. Ichthyocolla: five remediesib.25.Remedies for diseases of the ears. The batia: one remedy. The bacchus or myxon: two remedies. The sea-louse: two remedies3326.Remedies for tooth-ache. The dog-fish: four remedies. Whale’s flesh3427.Remedies for lichens, and for spots upon the face. The dolphin: nine remedies. Coluthia or coryphia: three remedies. Halcyoneum: seven remedies. The tunny: five remedies3528.Remedies for scrofula, imposthumes of the parotid glands, quinzy, and diseases of the fauces. The mæna; thirteen remedies. The sea-scolopendra: two remedies. The saurus: one remedy. Shell-fish: one remedy. The silurus: fifteen remedies3729.Remedies for cough and diseases of the chest3830.Remedies for pains in the liver and side. The elongated conch: six remedies. The tethea: five remedies3931.Remedies for diseases of the bowels. Sea-wort: one remedy The myax: twenty-five remedies. The mitulus: eight remedies. Pelorides: one remedy. Seriphum: two remedies. The erythinus: two remediesib.32.Remedies for diseases of the spleen, for urinary calculi, and for affections of the bladder. The sole: one remedy. The turbot: one remedy. The blendius: one remedy. The sea-nettle; seven remedies. The pulmo marinus: six remedies. Onyches: four remedies4233.Remedies for intestinal hernia, and for diseases of the rectum. The water-snake: one remedy. The hydrus: one remedy.The mullet: one remedy. The pelamis: three remedies4434.Remedies for inflamed tumours, and for diseases of the generative organs. The sciæna: one remedy. The perch: four remedies. The squatina: three remedies. The smaris: three remediesib.35.Remedies for incontinence of urine. The ophidion: one remedy4636.Remedies for gout, and for pains in the feet. The beaver: four remedies. Bryon: one remedyib.37.Remedies for epilepsy4738.Remedies for fevers. The fish called asellus: one remedy. The phagrus: one remedyib.39.Remedies for lethargy, cachexy, and dropsy4940.Remedies for burns and for erysipelasib.41.Remedies for diseases of the sinews5042.Methods of arresting hæmorrhage and of letting blood. The polyp: one remedyib.43.Methods of extracting foreign bodies from the flesh5144.Remedies for ulcers, carcinomata, and carbuncle5245.Remedies for warts, and for malformed nails. The glanis: one remedy5346.Remedies for female diseases. The glauciscus: one remedyib.47.Methods of removing superfluous hair. Depilatories5548.Remedies for the diseases of infants5649.Methods of preventing intoxication. The fish called rubellio: one remedy. The eel: one remedy. The grape-fish: one remedy5750.Antaphrodisiacs and aphrodisiacs. The hippopotamus: one remedy. The crocodile: one remedyib.51.Remedies for the diseases of animalsib.52.Other aquatic productions. Adarca or calamochnos: three remedies. Reeds: eight remedies. The ink of the sæpia5853.The names of all the animals that exist in the sea, one hundred and seventy-six in number5954.Additional names of fishes found in the poem of Ovid65BOOK XXXIII.THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.1.Metals682.Gold693.What was the first recommendation of gold714.The origin of gold ringsib.5.The quantity of gold possessed by the ancients756.The right or wearing gold rings767.The decuries of the judges828.Particulars connected with the equestrian order839.How often the name of the equestrian order has been changed8510.Gifts for military services, in gold and silver8611.At what period the first crown of gold was presentedib.12.Other uses made of gold, by females8713.Coins of gold. At what periods copper, gold, and silver, were first impressed. How copper was used before gold and silver were coined. What was the largest sum of money possessed by any one at the time of our first census. How often, and at what periods, the value of copper and of coined money has been changed8814.Considerations on man’s cupidity for gold9115.The persons who have possessed the greatest quantity of gold and silver9316.At what period silver first made its appearance upon the arena and upon the stage9417.At what periods there was the greatest quantity of gold and silver in the treasury of the Roman people9518.At what period ceilings were first gildedib.19.For what reasons the highest value is set upon gold9620.The method of gilding9821.How gold is found9922.Orpiment10423.Electrum10524.The first statues of goldib.25.Eight remedies derived from gold10626.Chrysocolla10727.The use made of chrysocolla in painting10828.Seven remedies derived from chrysocolla11029.The chrysocolla of the goldsmiths, known also as santernaib.30.The marvellous operations of nature in soldering metallic substances, and bringing them to a state of perfection11131.Silverib.32.Quicksilver11333.Stimmi, stibi, alabastrum, larbasis, or platy-ophthalmon11534.Seven remedies derived from stimmiib.35.The scoria of silver. Six remedies derived from it11636.Minium: for what religious purposes it was used by the ancients11937.The discovery and origin of minium12038.Cinnabarisib.39.The employment of cinnabaris in painting12140.The various kinds of minium. The use made of it in paintingib.41.Hydrargyros. Remedies derived from minium12442.The method of gilding silverib.43.Touchstones for testing gold12544.The different kinds of silver, and the modes of testing itib.45.Mirrors12646.Egyptian silver12847.Instances of immense wealth. Persons who have possessed the greatest sums of money12948.At what period the Roman people first made voluntary contributions13149.Instances of luxury in silver plateib.50.Instances of the frugality of the ancients in reference to silver plate13251.At what period silver was first used as an ornament for couches13452.At what period silver chargers of enormous size were first made. When silver was first used as a material for sideboards. When the sideboards called tympana were first introducedib.53.The enormous price of silver plate13554.Statues of silver13655.The most remarkable works in silver, and the names of the most famous artists in silver13856.Sil: The persons who first used it in painting and the method they adopted14057.Cæruleum14158.Two remedies derived from cæruleum143BOOK XXXIV.THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.1.The ores of brass1472.The different kinds of copper1483.The Corinthian brass1494.The Delian brass1515.The Æginetan brassib.6.Stands for lamps1527.Ornaments of the temples made of brass1538.Couches of brassib.9.Which was the first statue of a god made of brass at Rome. The origin of statues, and the respect paid to them15410.The different kinds and forms of statues. Statues at Rome with cuirasses15511.In honour of whom public statues were first erected: in honour of whom they were first placed on pillars: when the rostra were first erected15612.In honour of what foreigners public statues were erected at Rome15913.The first equestrian statues publicly erected at Rome, and in honour of what females statues were publicly erected there16014.At what period all the statues erected by private individuals were removed from the public placesib.15.The first statues publicly erected by foreigners16116.That there were statuaries in Italy also at an early period16217.The immoderate prices of statues16318.The most celebrated colossal statues in the city16419.An account of the most celebrated works in brass, and of the artists, 366 in number16820.The different kinds of copper and its combinations. Pyropus. Campanian copper18921.The method of preserving copper19122.Cadmiaib.23.Fifteen remedies derived from cadmia. Ten medicinal effects of calcined copper19324.The scoria of copper19425.Stomoma of copper: forty-seven remediesib.26.Verdigris: Eighteen remedies19527.Hieracium19728.Scolex of copper: eighteen remediesib.29.Chalcitis: seven remedies19830.Sory: three remedies19931.Misy: thirteen remediesib.32.Chalcanthum, or shoemakers’ black: sixteen remedies20033.Pompholyx20234.Spodos: five remediesib.35.Fifteen varieties of antispodos20336.Smegma20437.Diphryxib.38.Particulars relative to the Servilian triens20539.Iron oresib.40.Statues of iron; chased works in iron20641.The different kinds of iron, and the mode of tempering itib.42.The metal called live iron20943.Methods of preventing rustib.44.Seven remedies derived from iron21045.Fourteen remedies derived from rust21146.Seventeen remedies derived from the scales of iron. Hygremplastrumib.47.The ores of lead21248.Stannum. Argentarium21449.Black lead21550.Fifteen remedies derived from lead21651.Fifteen remedies derived from the scoria of lead21852.Spodium of leadib.53.Molybdæna: fifteen remediesib.54.Psimithium, or ceruse; six remedies21955.Sandarach: eleven remedies22056.Arrhenicumib.BOOK XXXV.AN ACCOUNT OF PAINTINGS AND COLOURS.1.The honour attached to painting2232.The honour attached to portraits2243.When shields were first invented with portraits upon them; and when they were first erected in public2274.When these shields were first placed in private housesib.5.The commencement of the art of painting. Monochrome paintings. The earliest painters2286.The antiquity of painting in Italy2297.Roman painters2308.At what period foreign paintings were first introduced at Rome2329.At what period painting was first held in high esteem at Rome, and from what causesib.10.What pictures the Emperors have exhibited in public23311.The art of painting23412.Pigments other than those of a metallic origin. Artificial colours23513.Sinopis: eleven remediesib.14.Rubrica; Lemnian earth: four remedies23615.Egyptian earth23716.Ochra: remedies derived from rubricaib.17.Leucophoronib.18.Parætonium23819.Melinum: six remedies. Ceruseib.20.Usta23921.Eretriaib.22.Sandarachib.23.Sandyx24024.Syricumib.25.Atramentumib.26.Purpurissum24227.Indicumib.28.Armenium: one remedy24329.Appianumib.30.Anularian white24431.Which colours do not admit of being laid on a wet coatingib.32.What colours were used by the ancients in painting24533.At what time combats of gladiators were first painted and publicly exhibited24634.The age of painting; with the names of the more celebrated works and artists, four hundred and five in numberib.35.The first contest for excellence in the pictorial art24836.Artists who painted with the pencil24937.Various other kinds of painting26838.An effectual way of putting a stop to the singing of birds27239.Artists who have painted in eucaustics or wax, with either the cestrum or the pencilib.40.The first inventors of various kinds of painting. The greatest difficulties in the art of painting. The several varieties of painting. The first artist that painted ceilings. When arched roofs were first painted. The marvellous price of some picturesib.41.Encaustic painting28242.The colouring of tissuesib.43.The inventors of the art of modelling28344.Who was the first to mould figures in imitation of the features of living persons, or of statues28445.The most famous modellersib.46.Works in pottery28647.Various kinds of earth. The Puteolan dust, and other earths of which cements like stone are made28848.Formacean walls28949.Walls of brick. The method of making bricks29050.Sulphur, and the several varieties of it: fourteen remedies29151.Bitumen, and the several varieties of it: twenty-seven remedies29352.Alumen, and the several varieties of it: thirty-eight remedies29453.Samian earth: three remedies29854.The various kinds of eretriaib.55.The method of washing earths for medicinal purposesib.56.Chian earth: three remedies. Selinusian earth: three remedies. Pnigitis: nine remedies. Ampelitis: four remedies29957.Cretaceous earths used for scouring cloth. Cimolian earth: nine remedies. Sardinian earth. Umbrian earth. Suxumib.58.Argentaria. Names of freedmen who have either risen to power themselves, or have belonged to men of influence30159.The earth of Galata; of Clypea; of the Baleares; and of Ebusus303BOOK XXXVI.THE NATURAL HISTORY OF STONES.1.Luxury displayed in the use of various kinds of marble3052.Who was the first to employ marble in public buildings3063.Who was the first to erect columns of foreign marble at Rome3074.The first artists who excelled in the sculpture of marble, and the various periods at which they flourished. The Mausoleum in Caria. The most celebrated sculptors and works in marble, two hundred and twenty-five in number3085.At what period marble was first used in buildings3236.Who were the first to cut marble into slabs, and at what period3247.Who was the first to encrust the walls of houses at Rome with marbleib.8.At what period the various kinds of marble came into use at Rome3259.The method of cutting marble into slabs. The sand used in cutting marbleib.10.Stone of Naxos. Stone of Armenia32711.The marbles of Alexandriaib.12.Onyx and alabastrites: six remedies32913.Lygdinus; corallitic stone; stone of Alabanda; stone of Thebais; stone of Syene33014.Obelisks33115.The obelisk which serves as a dial in the Campus Martius33416.Marvellous works in Egypt. The pyramids33517.The Egyptian Sphinx33618.The Pharos33919.Labyrinthsib.20.Hanging gardens. A hanging city34321.The Temple of Diana at Ephesusib.22.Marvels connected with other temples34423.The fugitive stone. The seven-fold echo. Buildings erected without the use of nailsib.24.Marvellous buildings at Rome, eighteen in number34525.The magnet: three remedies35526.Stone of Scyros35727.Sarcophagus, or stone of Assos: ten remediesib.28.Chernitesib.29.Osseous stones. Palm stones. Corani. Black stones35830.Molar stones. Pyrites: seven remedies35931.Ostrocites: four remedies. Amianthus: two remedies36032.Geodes: three remediesib.33.Melitinus: six remediesib.34.Gagates: six remedies36135.Spongites: two remedies36236.Phrygian stoneib.37.Hæmatites: five remedies. Schistos: seven remediesib.38.Æthiopic hæmatites. Androdamas: two remedies. Arabian hæmatites. Miltites or hepatites. Anthracites36339.Aëtites. Taphiusian stone. Callimus36440.Samian stone: eight remedies36541.Arabian stone: six remediesib.42.Pumice: nine remedies36643.Stones for mortars used for medicinal and other purposes. Etesian stone. Thebaic stone. Chalazian stone36744.Stone of Siphnos. Soft stones36845.Specular stonesib.46.Phengites36947.Whetstones37048.Tophus37149.The various kinds of silexib.50.Other stones used for building37251.The various methods of buildingib.52.Cisterns37353.Quick-limeib.54.The various kinds of sand. The combinations of sand with limeib.55.Defects in building. Plasters for walls37456.Columns. The several kinds of columnsib.57.Five remedies derived from lime37558.Malthaib.59.Gypsum37660.Pavements. The Asarotos œcosib.61.The first pavements in use at Rome37762.Terrace-roof pavementsib.63.Græcanic pavements37864.At what period mosaic pavements were first invented. At what period arched roofs were first decorated with glassib.65.The origin of glass37966.The various kinds of glass, and the mode of making it38067.Obsian glass and Obsian stone38168.Marvellous facts connected with fire38369.Three remedies derived from fire and from ashesib.70.Prodigies connected with the hearth384BOOK XXXVII.THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PRECIOUS STONES.1.The first use of precious stones3862.The jewel of Polycratesib.3.The jewel of Pyrrhus3874.Who were the most skilful lapidaries. The finest specimens of engraving on precious stones3895.The first dactyliothecæ at Rome3906.Jewels displayed at Rome in the triumph of Pompeius Magnusib.7.At what period murrhine vessels were first introduced at Rome. Instances of luxury in reference to them3928.The nature of murrhine vessels3939.The nature of crystal39410.Luxury displayed in the use of crystal. Remedies derived from crystal39511.Amber: the many falsehoods that have been told about it39712.The several kinds of amber: the remedies derived from it40213.Lyncurium: two asserted remedies40414.The various precious stones, classified according to their principal colours40515.Adamas: six varieties of it. Two remediesib.16.Smaragdus40817.Twelve varieties of the smaragdus41018.Defects in the smaragdus41119.The precious stone called tanos. Chalcosmaragdos41320.Beryls: eight varieties of them. Defects in beryls41421.Opals: seven varieties of them41522.Defects in opals: the modes of testing them41623.Sardonyx; the several varieties of it. Defects in the sardonyx41724.Onyx: the several varieties of it41925.Carbunculus: twelve varieties of it42026.Defects in carbunculus, and the mode of testing it42227.Anthracitis42328.Sandastros. Sandaresosib.29.Lychnis: four varieties of it42430.Carchedonia42531.Sarda: five varieties of itib.32.Topazos: two varieties of it42633.Callaina42734.Prasius: three varieties of it42935.Nilionib.36.Molochitisib.37.Iaspis: fourteen varieties of it. Defects found in iaspis43038.Cyanos: the several varieties of it43239.Sapphirosib.40.Amethystos: four varieties of it. Socondion. Sapenos. Pharanitis. Aphrodites blepharon, anteros, or hæderosib.41.Hyacinthos43442.Chrysolithos: seven varieties of itib.43.Chryselectrum43544.Leucochrysos: four varieties of itib.45.Melichrysos. Xuthon43646.Pæderos, sangenon, or tenitesib.47.Asteria43748.Astrionib.49.Astriotesib.50.Astrobolos43851.Ceraunia: four varieties of itib.52.Iris: two varieties of itib.53.Leros43954.Achates: the several varieties of it. Acopos: the remedies derived from it. Alabastritis: the remedies derived from it. Alectoria. Androdamas. Argyrodamas. Antipathes. Arabica. Aromatitis. Asbestos. Aspisatis. Atizöe. Augetis. Amphidanes or chrysocolla. Aphrodisiaca. Apsyctos. Ægyptillaib.55.Balanites. Batrachitis. Baptes. Beli oculus. Belus. Baroptenus or barippe. Botryitis. Bostrychitis. Bucardia. Brontea. Bolos44356.Cadmitis. Callais. Capnitis. Cappadocia. Callaica. Catochitis. Catoptritis. Cepitis or Cepolatitis. Ceramitis. Cinædia. Ceritis. Circos. Corsoïdes. Coralloachates. Corallis. Crateritis. Crocallis. Cyitis. Chalcophonos. Chelidonia. Chelonia. Chelonitis. Chloritis. Choaspitis. Chrysolampis. Chrysopis. Ceponides44457.Daphnea. Diadochos. Diphyes. Dionysias. Draconitis44758.Encardia or ariste. Enorchis. Exebenus. Erythallis. Erotylos, amphicomos, or hieromnemon. Eumeces. Enmithres. Eupetalos. Eureos. Eurotias. Eusebes. Epimelas44859.Galaxias. Galactitis, leucogæa, leucographitis, or synnephitis. Gallaica. Gassinade. Glossopetra. Gorgonia. Goniæa44960.Heliotropium. Hephæstitis. Hermuaidoion. Hexecontalithos. Hieracitis. Hammitis. Hammonis cornu. Hormiscion. Hyænia. Hæmatitis45061.Idæi dactyli. Icterias. Jovis gemma. Indica. Ion45262.Lepidotis. Lesbias. Leucophthalmos. Leucopœcilos. Libanochrus. Limoniatis. Liparea. Lysimachos. Leucochrysosib.63.Memnonia. Media. Meconitis. Mithrax. Morochthos. Mormorion or promnion. Murrhitis. Myrmecias. Myrsinitis. Mesoleucos. Mesomelas45364.Nasamonitis. Nebritis. Nipparene45465.Oica. Ombria or notia. Onocardia. Oritis or sideritis. Ostracias. Ostritis. Ophicardelon. Obsian stoneib.66.Panchrus. Pangonus. Paneros or panerastos. Pontica: four varieties of it. Phloginos or chrysitis. Phœnicitis. Phycitis. Perileucos. Pæanitis or gæanis45567.Solis gemma. Sagda. Samothracia. Sauritis. Sarcitis. Selenitis. Sideritis. Sideropœcilos. Spongitis. Synodontitis. Syrtitis. Syringitis45668.Trichrus. Thelyrrhizos. Thelycardios or mule. Thracia: three varieties of it. Tephritis. Tecolithos45769.Veneris crines. Veientana45870.Zathene. Zmilampis. Zoraniscæaib.71.Precious stones which derive their names from various parts of the human body. Hepatitis. Steatitis. Adadunephros. Adaduophthalmos. Adadudactylos. Triophthalmosib.72.Precious stones which derive their names from animals. Carcinias. Echitis. Scorpitis. Scaritis. Triglitis. Ægophthalmos. Hyophthalmos. Geranitis. Hieracitis. Aëtitis. Myrmecitis. Cantharias. Lycophthalmos. Taos. Timictonia45973.Precious stones which derive their names from other objects. Hammochrysos. Cenchritis. Dryitis. Cissitis. Narcissitis. Cyamias. Pyren. Phœnicitis. Chalazias. Pyritis. Polyzonos Astrapæa. Phlogitis. Anthracitis. Enhygros. Polythrix. Leontios. Pardalios. Drosolithos. Melichrus. Melichloros. Crocias. Polias. Spartopolias. Rhoditis. Chalcitis. Sycitis. Bostrychitis. Chernitie. Anancitis. Synochitis. Dendritisib.74.Precious stones that suddenly make their appearance. Cochlides46175.The various forms of precious stones46276.The methods of testing precious stones46377.A comparative view of Nature as she appears in different countries. The comparative values of things464General Index469
The power of Nature as manifested in antipathies. The echeneïs: two remedies
The torpedo: nine remedies
The sea-hare: five remedies
Marvels of the Red Sea
The instincts of fishes
Marvellous properties belonging to certain fishes
Places where fish eat from the hand
Places where fish recognize the human voice. Oracular responses given by fish
Places where bitter fish are found, salt, or sweet
When sea-fish were first eaten by the people of Rome. The ordinance of King Numa as to fish
Coral: forty-three remedies and observations
The antipathies and sympathies which exist between certain objects. The hatreds manifested by certain aquatic animals. The pastinaca: eight remedies. The galeos: fifteen remedies. The sur-mullet: fifteen remedies
Amphibious animals. Castoreum: sixty-six remedies and observations
The tortoise: sixty-six remedies and observations
Remedies derived from the aquatic animals, classified according to the respective diseases
Remedies for poisons, and for noxious spells. The dorade: four remedies. The sea-star: seven remedies
Remedies for the stings of serpents, for the bites of dogs, and for injuries indicted by venomous animals. The sea-dragon: three remedies. Twenty-five remedies derived from salted fish. The sarda: one remedy. Eleven remedies derived from cybium
The sea-frog: six remedies. The river-frog: fifty-two remedies. The bramble-frog: one remedy. Thirty-two observations on these animals
The enhydris: six remedies. The river-crab: fourteen remedies. The sea-crab: seven remedies. The river-snail: seven remedies. The coracinus: four remedies. The sea-pig: two remedies
The sea-calf: ten remedies. The muræna: one remedy. The hippocampus: nine remedies. The sea-urchin: eleven remedies
The various kinds of oysters: fifty-eight remedies and observations. Purples: nine remedies
Sea-weed: two remedies
Remedies for alopecy, change of colour in the hair, and ulcerations of the head. The sea-mouse: two remedies. The sea-scorpion: twelve remedies. The leech: seven remedies. The murex: thirteen remedies. The conchylium: five remedies
Remedies for diseases of the eyes and eyelids. Two remedies derived from the fat of fishes. The callionymus: three remedies. The gall of the coracinus: one remedy. The sæpia: twenty-four remedies. Ichthyocolla: five remedies
Remedies for diseases of the ears. The batia: one remedy. The bacchus or myxon: two remedies. The sea-louse: two remedies
Remedies for tooth-ache. The dog-fish: four remedies. Whale’s flesh
Remedies for lichens, and for spots upon the face. The dolphin: nine remedies. Coluthia or coryphia: three remedies. Halcyoneum: seven remedies. The tunny: five remedies
Remedies for scrofula, imposthumes of the parotid glands, quinzy, and diseases of the fauces. The mæna; thirteen remedies. The sea-scolopendra: two remedies. The saurus: one remedy. Shell-fish: one remedy. The silurus: fifteen remedies
Remedies for cough and diseases of the chest
Remedies for pains in the liver and side. The elongated conch: six remedies. The tethea: five remedies
Remedies for diseases of the bowels. Sea-wort: one remedy The myax: twenty-five remedies. The mitulus: eight remedies. Pelorides: one remedy. Seriphum: two remedies. The erythinus: two remedies
Remedies for diseases of the spleen, for urinary calculi, and for affections of the bladder. The sole: one remedy. The turbot: one remedy. The blendius: one remedy. The sea-nettle; seven remedies. The pulmo marinus: six remedies. Onyches: four remedies
Remedies for intestinal hernia, and for diseases of the rectum. The water-snake: one remedy. The hydrus: one remedy.The mullet: one remedy. The pelamis: three remedies
Remedies for inflamed tumours, and for diseases of the generative organs. The sciæna: one remedy. The perch: four remedies. The squatina: three remedies. The smaris: three remedies
Remedies for incontinence of urine. The ophidion: one remedy
Remedies for gout, and for pains in the feet. The beaver: four remedies. Bryon: one remedy
Remedies for epilepsy
Remedies for fevers. The fish called asellus: one remedy. The phagrus: one remedy
Remedies for lethargy, cachexy, and dropsy
Remedies for burns and for erysipelas
Remedies for diseases of the sinews
Methods of arresting hæmorrhage and of letting blood. The polyp: one remedy
Methods of extracting foreign bodies from the flesh
Remedies for ulcers, carcinomata, and carbuncle
Remedies for warts, and for malformed nails. The glanis: one remedy
Remedies for female diseases. The glauciscus: one remedy
Methods of removing superfluous hair. Depilatories
Remedies for the diseases of infants
Methods of preventing intoxication. The fish called rubellio: one remedy. The eel: one remedy. The grape-fish: one remedy
Antaphrodisiacs and aphrodisiacs. The hippopotamus: one remedy. The crocodile: one remedy
Remedies for the diseases of animals
Other aquatic productions. Adarca or calamochnos: three remedies. Reeds: eight remedies. The ink of the sæpia
The names of all the animals that exist in the sea, one hundred and seventy-six in number
Additional names of fishes found in the poem of Ovid
Metals
Gold
What was the first recommendation of gold
The origin of gold rings
The quantity of gold possessed by the ancients
The right or wearing gold rings
The decuries of the judges
Particulars connected with the equestrian order
How often the name of the equestrian order has been changed
Gifts for military services, in gold and silver
At what period the first crown of gold was presented
Other uses made of gold, by females
Coins of gold. At what periods copper, gold, and silver, were first impressed. How copper was used before gold and silver were coined. What was the largest sum of money possessed by any one at the time of our first census. How often, and at what periods, the value of copper and of coined money has been changed
Considerations on man’s cupidity for gold
The persons who have possessed the greatest quantity of gold and silver
At what period silver first made its appearance upon the arena and upon the stage
At what periods there was the greatest quantity of gold and silver in the treasury of the Roman people
At what period ceilings were first gilded
For what reasons the highest value is set upon gold
The method of gilding
How gold is found
Orpiment
Electrum
The first statues of gold
Eight remedies derived from gold
Chrysocolla
The use made of chrysocolla in painting
Seven remedies derived from chrysocolla
The chrysocolla of the goldsmiths, known also as santerna
The marvellous operations of nature in soldering metallic substances, and bringing them to a state of perfection
Silver
Quicksilver
Stimmi, stibi, alabastrum, larbasis, or platy-ophthalmon
Seven remedies derived from stimmi
The scoria of silver. Six remedies derived from it
Minium: for what religious purposes it was used by the ancients
The discovery and origin of minium
Cinnabaris
The employment of cinnabaris in painting
The various kinds of minium. The use made of it in painting
Hydrargyros. Remedies derived from minium
The method of gilding silver
Touchstones for testing gold
The different kinds of silver, and the modes of testing it
Mirrors
Egyptian silver
Instances of immense wealth. Persons who have possessed the greatest sums of money
At what period the Roman people first made voluntary contributions
Instances of luxury in silver plate
Instances of the frugality of the ancients in reference to silver plate
At what period silver was first used as an ornament for couches
At what period silver chargers of enormous size were first made. When silver was first used as a material for sideboards. When the sideboards called tympana were first introduced
The enormous price of silver plate
Statues of silver
The most remarkable works in silver, and the names of the most famous artists in silver
Sil: The persons who first used it in painting and the method they adopted
Cæruleum
Two remedies derived from cæruleum
The ores of brass
The different kinds of copper
The Corinthian brass
The Delian brass
The Æginetan brass
Stands for lamps
Ornaments of the temples made of brass
Couches of brass
Which was the first statue of a god made of brass at Rome. The origin of statues, and the respect paid to them
The different kinds and forms of statues. Statues at Rome with cuirasses
In honour of whom public statues were first erected: in honour of whom they were first placed on pillars: when the rostra were first erected
In honour of what foreigners public statues were erected at Rome
The first equestrian statues publicly erected at Rome, and in honour of what females statues were publicly erected there
At what period all the statues erected by private individuals were removed from the public places
The first statues publicly erected by foreigners
That there were statuaries in Italy also at an early period
The immoderate prices of statues
The most celebrated colossal statues in the city
An account of the most celebrated works in brass, and of the artists, 366 in number
The different kinds of copper and its combinations. Pyropus. Campanian copper
The method of preserving copper
Cadmia
Fifteen remedies derived from cadmia. Ten medicinal effects of calcined copper
The scoria of copper
Stomoma of copper: forty-seven remedies
Verdigris: Eighteen remedies
Hieracium
Scolex of copper: eighteen remedies
Chalcitis: seven remedies
Sory: three remedies
Misy: thirteen remedies
Chalcanthum, or shoemakers’ black: sixteen remedies
Pompholyx
Spodos: five remedies
Fifteen varieties of antispodos
Smegma
Diphryx
Particulars relative to the Servilian triens
Iron ores
Statues of iron; chased works in iron
The different kinds of iron, and the mode of tempering it
The metal called live iron
Methods of preventing rust
Seven remedies derived from iron
Fourteen remedies derived from rust
Seventeen remedies derived from the scales of iron. Hygremplastrum
The ores of lead
Stannum. Argentarium
Black lead
Fifteen remedies derived from lead
Fifteen remedies derived from the scoria of lead
Spodium of lead
Molybdæna: fifteen remedies
Psimithium, or ceruse; six remedies
Sandarach: eleven remedies
Arrhenicum
The honour attached to painting
The honour attached to portraits
When shields were first invented with portraits upon them; and when they were first erected in public
When these shields were first placed in private houses
The commencement of the art of painting. Monochrome paintings. The earliest painters
The antiquity of painting in Italy
Roman painters
At what period foreign paintings were first introduced at Rome
At what period painting was first held in high esteem at Rome, and from what causes
What pictures the Emperors have exhibited in public
The art of painting
Pigments other than those of a metallic origin. Artificial colours
Sinopis: eleven remedies
Rubrica; Lemnian earth: four remedies
Egyptian earth
Ochra: remedies derived from rubrica
Leucophoron
Parætonium
Melinum: six remedies. Ceruse
Usta
Eretria
Sandarach
Sandyx
Syricum
Atramentum
Purpurissum
Indicum
Armenium: one remedy
Appianum
Anularian white
Which colours do not admit of being laid on a wet coating
What colours were used by the ancients in painting
At what time combats of gladiators were first painted and publicly exhibited
The age of painting; with the names of the more celebrated works and artists, four hundred and five in number
The first contest for excellence in the pictorial art
Artists who painted with the pencil
Various other kinds of painting
An effectual way of putting a stop to the singing of birds
Artists who have painted in eucaustics or wax, with either the cestrum or the pencil
The first inventors of various kinds of painting. The greatest difficulties in the art of painting. The several varieties of painting. The first artist that painted ceilings. When arched roofs were first painted. The marvellous price of some pictures
Encaustic painting
The colouring of tissues
The inventors of the art of modelling
Who was the first to mould figures in imitation of the features of living persons, or of statues
The most famous modellers
Works in pottery
Various kinds of earth. The Puteolan dust, and other earths of which cements like stone are made
Formacean walls
Walls of brick. The method of making bricks
Sulphur, and the several varieties of it: fourteen remedies
Bitumen, and the several varieties of it: twenty-seven remedies
Alumen, and the several varieties of it: thirty-eight remedies
Samian earth: three remedies
The various kinds of eretria
The method of washing earths for medicinal purposes
Chian earth: three remedies. Selinusian earth: three remedies. Pnigitis: nine remedies. Ampelitis: four remedies
Cretaceous earths used for scouring cloth. Cimolian earth: nine remedies. Sardinian earth. Umbrian earth. Suxum
Argentaria. Names of freedmen who have either risen to power themselves, or have belonged to men of influence
The earth of Galata; of Clypea; of the Baleares; and of Ebusus
Luxury displayed in the use of various kinds of marble
Who was the first to employ marble in public buildings
Who was the first to erect columns of foreign marble at Rome
The first artists who excelled in the sculpture of marble, and the various periods at which they flourished. The Mausoleum in Caria. The most celebrated sculptors and works in marble, two hundred and twenty-five in number
At what period marble was first used in buildings
Who were the first to cut marble into slabs, and at what period
Who was the first to encrust the walls of houses at Rome with marble
At what period the various kinds of marble came into use at Rome
The method of cutting marble into slabs. The sand used in cutting marble
Stone of Naxos. Stone of Armenia
The marbles of Alexandria
Onyx and alabastrites: six remedies
Lygdinus; corallitic stone; stone of Alabanda; stone of Thebais; stone of Syene
Obelisks
The obelisk which serves as a dial in the Campus Martius
Marvellous works in Egypt. The pyramids
The Egyptian Sphinx
The Pharos
Labyrinths
Hanging gardens. A hanging city
The Temple of Diana at Ephesus
Marvels connected with other temples
The fugitive stone. The seven-fold echo. Buildings erected without the use of nails
Marvellous buildings at Rome, eighteen in number
The magnet: three remedies
Stone of Scyros
Sarcophagus, or stone of Assos: ten remedies
Chernites
Osseous stones. Palm stones. Corani. Black stones
Molar stones. Pyrites: seven remedies
Ostrocites: four remedies. Amianthus: two remedies
Geodes: three remedies
Melitinus: six remedies
Gagates: six remedies
Spongites: two remedies
Phrygian stone
Hæmatites: five remedies. Schistos: seven remedies
Æthiopic hæmatites. Androdamas: two remedies. Arabian hæmatites. Miltites or hepatites. Anthracites
Aëtites. Taphiusian stone. Callimus
Samian stone: eight remedies
Arabian stone: six remedies
Pumice: nine remedies
Stones for mortars used for medicinal and other purposes. Etesian stone. Thebaic stone. Chalazian stone
Stone of Siphnos. Soft stones
Specular stones
Phengites
Whetstones
Tophus
The various kinds of silex
Other stones used for building
The various methods of building
Cisterns
Quick-lime
The various kinds of sand. The combinations of sand with lime
Defects in building. Plasters for walls
Columns. The several kinds of columns
Five remedies derived from lime
Maltha
Gypsum
Pavements. The Asarotos œcos
The first pavements in use at Rome
Terrace-roof pavements
Græcanic pavements
At what period mosaic pavements were first invented. At what period arched roofs were first decorated with glass
The origin of glass
The various kinds of glass, and the mode of making it
Obsian glass and Obsian stone
Marvellous facts connected with fire
Three remedies derived from fire and from ashes
Prodigies connected with the hearth
The first use of precious stones
The jewel of Polycrates
The jewel of Pyrrhus
Who were the most skilful lapidaries. The finest specimens of engraving on precious stones
The first dactyliothecæ at Rome
Jewels displayed at Rome in the triumph of Pompeius Magnus
At what period murrhine vessels were first introduced at Rome. Instances of luxury in reference to them
The nature of murrhine vessels
The nature of crystal
Luxury displayed in the use of crystal. Remedies derived from crystal
Amber: the many falsehoods that have been told about it
The several kinds of amber: the remedies derived from it
Lyncurium: two asserted remedies
The various precious stones, classified according to their principal colours
Adamas: six varieties of it. Two remedies
Smaragdus
Twelve varieties of the smaragdus
Defects in the smaragdus
The precious stone called tanos. Chalcosmaragdos
Beryls: eight varieties of them. Defects in beryls
Opals: seven varieties of them
Defects in opals: the modes of testing them
Sardonyx; the several varieties of it. Defects in the sardonyx
Onyx: the several varieties of it
Carbunculus: twelve varieties of it
Defects in carbunculus, and the mode of testing it
Anthracitis
Sandastros. Sandaresos
Lychnis: four varieties of it
Carchedonia
Sarda: five varieties of it
Topazos: two varieties of it
Callaina
Prasius: three varieties of it
Nilion
Molochitis
Iaspis: fourteen varieties of it. Defects found in iaspis
Cyanos: the several varieties of it
Sapphiros
Amethystos: four varieties of it. Socondion. Sapenos. Pharanitis. Aphrodites blepharon, anteros, or hæderos
Hyacinthos
Chrysolithos: seven varieties of it
Chryselectrum
Leucochrysos: four varieties of it
Melichrysos. Xuthon
Pæderos, sangenon, or tenites
Asteria
Astrion
Astriotes
Astrobolos
Ceraunia: four varieties of it
Iris: two varieties of it
Leros
Achates: the several varieties of it. Acopos: the remedies derived from it. Alabastritis: the remedies derived from it. Alectoria. Androdamas. Argyrodamas. Antipathes. Arabica. Aromatitis. Asbestos. Aspisatis. Atizöe. Augetis. Amphidanes or chrysocolla. Aphrodisiaca. Apsyctos. Ægyptilla
Balanites. Batrachitis. Baptes. Beli oculus. Belus. Baroptenus or barippe. Botryitis. Bostrychitis. Bucardia. Brontea. Bolos
Cadmitis. Callais. Capnitis. Cappadocia. Callaica. Catochitis. Catoptritis. Cepitis or Cepolatitis. Ceramitis. Cinædia. Ceritis. Circos. Corsoïdes. Coralloachates. Corallis. Crateritis. Crocallis. Cyitis. Chalcophonos. Chelidonia. Chelonia. Chelonitis. Chloritis. Choaspitis. Chrysolampis. Chrysopis. Ceponides
Daphnea. Diadochos. Diphyes. Dionysias. Draconitis
Encardia or ariste. Enorchis. Exebenus. Erythallis. Erotylos, amphicomos, or hieromnemon. Eumeces. Enmithres. Eupetalos. Eureos. Eurotias. Eusebes. Epimelas
Galaxias. Galactitis, leucogæa, leucographitis, or synnephitis. Gallaica. Gassinade. Glossopetra. Gorgonia. Goniæa
Heliotropium. Hephæstitis. Hermuaidoion. Hexecontalithos. Hieracitis. Hammitis. Hammonis cornu. Hormiscion. Hyænia. Hæmatitis
Idæi dactyli. Icterias. Jovis gemma. Indica. Ion
Lepidotis. Lesbias. Leucophthalmos. Leucopœcilos. Libanochrus. Limoniatis. Liparea. Lysimachos. Leucochrysos
Memnonia. Media. Meconitis. Mithrax. Morochthos. Mormorion or promnion. Murrhitis. Myrmecias. Myrsinitis. Mesoleucos. Mesomelas
Nasamonitis. Nebritis. Nipparene
Oica. Ombria or notia. Onocardia. Oritis or sideritis. Ostracias. Ostritis. Ophicardelon. Obsian stone
Panchrus. Pangonus. Paneros or panerastos. Pontica: four varieties of it. Phloginos or chrysitis. Phœnicitis. Phycitis. Perileucos. Pæanitis or gæanis
Solis gemma. Sagda. Samothracia. Sauritis. Sarcitis. Selenitis. Sideritis. Sideropœcilos. Spongitis. Synodontitis. Syrtitis. Syringitis
Trichrus. Thelyrrhizos. Thelycardios or mule. Thracia: three varieties of it. Tephritis. Tecolithos
Veneris crines. Veientana
Zathene. Zmilampis. Zoraniscæa
Precious stones which derive their names from various parts of the human body. Hepatitis. Steatitis. Adadunephros. Adaduophthalmos. Adadudactylos. Triophthalmos
Precious stones which derive their names from animals. Carcinias. Echitis. Scorpitis. Scaritis. Triglitis. Ægophthalmos. Hyophthalmos. Geranitis. Hieracitis. Aëtitis. Myrmecitis. Cantharias. Lycophthalmos. Taos. Timictonia
Precious stones which derive their names from other objects. Hammochrysos. Cenchritis. Dryitis. Cissitis. Narcissitis. Cyamias. Pyren. Phœnicitis. Chalazias. Pyritis. Polyzonos Astrapæa. Phlogitis. Anthracitis. Enhygros. Polythrix. Leontios. Pardalios. Drosolithos. Melichrus. Melichloros. Crocias. Polias. Spartopolias. Rhoditis. Chalcitis. Sycitis. Bostrychitis. Chernitie. Anancitis. Synochitis. Dendritis
Precious stones that suddenly make their appearance. Cochlides
The various forms of precious stones
The methods of testing precious stones
A comparative view of Nature as she appears in different countries. The comparative values of things