BOOK XXVI
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A CONTINUATION OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM PLANTS, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO PARTICULAR DISEASES.
1. New forms of disease 152
2. The nature of lichen _ib._
3. At what period lichen first made its appearance in Italy _ib._
4. Carbuncle 154
5. Elephantiasis _ib._
6. Colic 155
7. The new system of medicine: Asclepiades the physician 156
8. The changes effected by Asclepiades in the practice of medicine 157
9. Remarks in dispraise of the practices of magic 159
10. Lichen: five remedies 160
11. Quinzy 161
12. Scrofula _ib._
13. The plant called bellis: two remedies 162
14. The condurdum _ib._
15. Cough 163
16. Bechion, otherwise known as arcion, chamæleuce, or tussilago: three remedies 164
17. The bechion, known also as salvia: four remedies _ib._
18. Affections of the side, chest, and stomach _ib._
19. Molon or syron. Amomum 165
20. The ephedra or anabasis; three remedies 166
21. Geum; three remedies _ib._
22. Tripolium: three remedies 167
23. The gromphæna _ib._
24. The malundrum: two remedies _ib._
25. Chalcetum; two remedies. Molemonium; one remedy 168
26. Halus or cotonea: five remedies 169
27. The chamædrops: one remedy. The stœchas: one remedy _ib._
28. Remedies for diseases of the belly _ib._
29. The astragalus: six remedies 170
30. Ladanum: eighteen remedies 171
31. Chondris or pseudodictamnon: one remedy. Hypocisthis or orobethron; two varieties: eight remedies 172
32. Laver or sion: two remedies _ib._
33. Potamogiton: eight remedies. The statice: three remedies _ib._
34. The ceratia: two remedies. Leontopodion, leuceoron, doripetron, or thorybethron. Lagopus: three remedies 173
35. Epithymon or hippopheos; eight remedies 174
36. Pycnocomon; four remedies 175
37. Polypodion; three remedies _ib._
38. Scammony; eight remedies 176
39. The tithymalos characias 177
40. The tithymalos myrtites, or caryites; twenty-one remedies 178
41. The tithymalos paralios, or tithymalis; four remedies 179
42. The tithymalos helioscopios; eighteen remedies _ib._
43. The tithymalos cyparissias; eighteen remedies 180
44. The tithymalos platyphyllos, corymbites, or amygdalites; three remedies _ib._
45. The tithymalos dendroïdes, cobios, or leptophyllos; eighteen remedies _ib._
46. The apios ischas, or raphanos agria; two remedies _ib._
47. Remedies for griping pains in the bowels 181
48. Remedies for diseases of the spleen _ib._
49. Remedies for calculi and diseases of the bladder 182
50. Crethmos; eleven remedies. Cachry 183
51. The anthyllion; two remedies. The anthyllis; two remedies 184
52. Cepæa; one remedy _ib._
53. Hypericon, chamæpitys, or corison; nine remedies 185
54. Caros or hypericon; ten remedies _ib._
55. The callithrix; one remedy. The perpressa; one remedy. The chrysanthemum; one remedy. The anthemis; one remedy 186
56. Silaus; one remedy _ib._
57. The plant of Fulvius 187
58. Remedies for diseases of the testes and of the fundament _ib._
59. Inguinalis or argemo 188
60. Remedies for inflamed tumours. Chrysippios; one remedy _ib._
61. Aphrodisiacs and antaphrodisiacs 189
62. The orchis or serapias; five medicinal properties. Satyrion _ib._
63. Satyrion; three medicinal properties. Satyrion erythraïcon; four medicinal properties 190
64. Remedies for the gout and diseases of the feet 192
65. Lappago or mollugo; one remedy. Asperugo; one remedy _ib._
66. Phycos thalassion or sea-weed; three varieties of it. Lappa boaria 193
67. Maladies which attack the whole of the body 194
68. The geranion, myrrhis or myrtis; three varieties of it: six remedies 195
69. The onotheras or onear; three remedies 196
70. Remedies for epilepsy _ib._
71. Remedies for fevers 197
72. Remedies for phrenitis, lethargy; and carbuncles 198
73. Remedies for dropsy. Acte or ebulum. Chamæacte. _ib._
74. Remedies for erysipelas 199
75. Remedies for sprains 200
76. Remedies for jaundice _ib._
77. Remedies for boils 201
78. Remedies for fistula _ib._
79. Remedies for abscesses and hard tumours _ib._
80. Remedies for burns 202
81. Remedies for diseases of the sinews and joints _ib._
82. Remedies for hæmorrhage 203
83. Hippuris, otherwise called ephedron, anabasis, or equisætum; three kinds of it; eighteen remedies _ib._
84. Stephanomelis 205
85. Remedies for ruptures and convulsions. Erysithales; one remedy _ib._
86. Remedies for phthiriasis 206
87. Remedies for ulcers and wounds _ib._
88. Polycnemon; one remedy 209
89. Remedies for warts, and applications for the removal of scars _ib._
90. Remedies for female diseases 210
91. Arsenogonon; one medicinal property. Thelygonon; one medicinal property 213
92. Mastos; one remedy 214
93. Applications for the hair. Lysimachia. Ophrys _ib._
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