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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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