BOOK XXV
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WILD PLANTS.
1. When the wild plants were first brought into use 77
2. The Latin authors who have written upon these plants 78
3. At what period the Romans acquired some knowledge of this subject _ib._
4. Greek authors who have delineated the plants in colours 80
5. The first Greek authors who wrote upon plants _ib._
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 remedies 83
7. What diseases are attended with the greatest pain. Names of persons who have discovered famous plants 86
8. Moly: three remedies 87
9. The dodecatheos: one remedy 88
10. The pæonia, pentorobus, or glycyside: one remedy _ib._
11. The panaces asclepion: two remedies 89
12. The panaces heracleon: three remedies 90
13. The panaces chironion: four remedies _ib._
14. The panaces centaurion or pharnacion: three remedies _ib._
15. The heracleon siderion: four remedies 91
16. The ampelos chironia: one remedy _ib._
17. Hyoscyamos, known also as the apollinaris or altercum; five varieties of it: three remedies _ib._
18. Linoxostis, parthenion, hermupoa, or mercurialis: two varieties of it: twenty-two remedies 92
19. The achilleos, sideritis, panaces heracleon, millefolium, or scopæ regiæ; six varieties of it: three remedies 94
20. The teucrion, hemionion, or splenion: two remedies 95
21. Melampodium, hellebore, or veratrum; three varieties of it. The way in which it is gathered, and how the quality of it is tested 96
22. Twenty-four remedies derived from black hellebore. How it should be taken 98
23. Twenty-three remedies derived from white hellebore 99
24. Eighty-eight observations upon the two kinds of hellebore 100
25. To what persons hellebore should never be administered 101
26. The mithridatia 102
27. The scordotis or scordion: four remedies _ib._
28. The polemonia, philetæria, or chiliodynamus: six remedies _ib._
29. The eupatoria: one remedy 103
30. Centaurion or chironion: twenty remedies _ib._
31. The centaurion lepton, or libadion, known also as fel terræ: twenty-two remedies 104
32. The centauris triorchis: two remedies _ib._
33. Clymenus: two remedies 105
34. Gentian: thirteen remedies _ib._
35. The lysimachia: eight remedies 106
36. Artemisia, parthenis, botrys, or ambrosia: five remedies _ib._
37. Nymphæa, heracleon, rhopalon, or madon; two varieties of it: four remedies 107
38. Two varieties of euphorbia: four remedies. The chamelæa _ib._
39. Two varieties of the plantago: forty-six remedies 109
40. Buglossos; three remedies _ib._
41. Cynoglossos: three remedies 110
42. The buphthalmos or cachla: one remedy _ib._
43. Plants which have been discovered by certain nations. The scythice: one remedy _ib._
44. The hippace: three remedies 111
45. The ischæmon: two remedies _ib._
46. The cestros, psychotrophon, vettonica, or serratula: forty-eight remedies _ib._
47. The cantabrica: two remedies 112
48. Consiligo: one remedy _ib._
49. The iberis: seven remedies 113
50. Plants which have been discovered by certain animals. Chelidonia: six remedies 114
51. The dog-plant: one remedy _ib._
52. The elaphoboscon 115
53. 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 _ib._
54. The aristolochia, clematitis, cretica, plistolochia, lochia polyrrhizos, or apple of the earth: twenty-two remedies 116
55. The employment of these plants for injuries inflicted by serpents 118
56. The argemonia: four remedies 119
57. Agaric: thirty-three remedies 120
58. The echios; three varieties of it: two remedies _ib._
59. Hierabotane, peristereon, or verbenaca; two varieties of it: ten remedies 121
60. The blattaria: one remedy 122
61. Lemonium: one remedy _ib._
62. Quinquefolium, known also as pentapetes, pentaphyllon, or chamæzelon: thirty-three remedies _ib._
63. The sparganion: one remedy 123
64. Four varieties of the daucus: eighteen remedies _ib._
65. The therionarca: two remedies 124
66. The persolata or areion: eight remedies _ib._
67. Cyclaminos or tuber terræ: twelve remedies 125
68. The cyclaminos cissanthemos: four remedies _ib._
69. The cyclaminos chamæcissos: three remedies 126
70. Peucedanum: twenty-eight remedies _ib._
71. Ebulum: six remedies 127
72. Polemonia: one remedy _ib._
73. Phlomos or verbascum: fifteen remedies _ib._
74. The phlomis: one remedy. The lychnitis or thryallis _ib._
75. The thelyphonon or scorpio: one remedy 128
76. The phrynion, neuras, or poterion: one remedy _ib._
77. The alisma, damasonion, or lyron: seventeen remedies 129
78. Peristereos: six remedies 130
79. Remedies against certain poisons _ib._
80. The antirrhinum, anarrhinon, or lychnis agria: three remedies 131
81. Euclea: one remedy _ib._
82. The pericarpum; two varieties of it: two remedies _ib._
83. Remedies for diseases of the head. Nymphæa heraclia: two remedies 132
84. The lingulaca: one remedy _ib._
85. The cacalia or leontice: three remedies 133
86. The callitrichos: one remedy _ib._
87. Hyssop: ten remedies _ib._
88. The lonchitis: four remedies 134
89. The xiphion or phasganion: four remedies _ib._
90. Psyllion, cynoïdes, crystallion, sicelicon, or cynomyia; sixteen remedies. Thryselinum: one remedy 135
91. Remedies for diseases of the eyes 136
92. The anagallis, or corchoron; two varieties of it: six remedies _ib._
93. The ægilops: two remedies 138
94. Mandragora, circæon, morion, or hippophlomos; two varieties of it: twenty-four remedies _ib._
95. Hemlock: thirteen remedies 140
96. Crethmos agrios: one remedy _ib._
97. Molybdæna: one remedy _ib._
98. The first kind of capnos, known also as chicken’s foot: one remedy 142
99. The arborescent capnos: three remedies _ib._
100. The acoron or agrion: fourteen remedies _ib._
101. The cotyledon: two varieties of it: sixty-one remedies 143
102. 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 _ib._
103. The andrachle agria or illecebra: thirty-two remedies 144
104. A remedy for diseases of the nostrils 145
105. Remedies for diseases of the teeth _ib._
106. Erigeron, pappus, acanthis, or senecio: eight remedies 146
107. The ephemeron: two remedies 147
108. The labrum Venereum: one remedy 148
109. The batrachion, ranunculus, or strumus; four varieties of it: fourteen remedies _ib._
110. Remedial preparations for offensive breath: two kinds of them 150
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