BOOK XXVIII
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REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.
1. Introduction 275
2. Remedies derived from man 276
3. Whether words are possessed of any healing efficacy 278
4. That prodigies and portents may be confirmed, or made of no effect 280
5. A description of various usages 283
6. Two hundred and twenty-six observations on remedies derived from man. Eight remedies derived from children 286
7. Properties of the human spittle 288
8. Remedies derived from the wax of the human ear 291
9. Remedies derived from the human hair, teeth, &c. _ib._
10. Remedies derived from the human blood, the sexual congress, &c. 292
11. Remedies derived from the dead _ib._
12. Various reveries and devices of the magicians 293
13. Remedies derived from the human excretions 294
14. Remedies depending upon the human will 295
15. Remedies derived from sneezing 297
16. Remedies derived from the sexual congress _ib._
17. Various other remedies 298
18. Remedies derived from the urine 299
19. Indications of health derived from the urine 301
20. Forty-one remedies derived from the female sex _ib._
21. Remedies derived from woman’s milk 302
22. Remedies derived from the spittle of females 304
23. Facts connected with the menstrual discharge _ib._
24. Remedies derived from foreign animals: the elephant, eight remedies 307
25. Ten remedies derived from the lion 308
26. Ten remedies derived from the camel _ib._
27. Seventy-nine remedies derived from the hyæna 309
28. Nineteen remedies derived from the crocodile 314
29. Fifteen remedies derived from the chamæleon 315
30. Four remedies derived from the scincus 318
31. Seven remedies derived from the hippopotamus _ib._
32. Five remedies derived from the lynx 319
33. Remedies furnished in common by animals of the same class, whether wild or tame. Fifty-four medicinal uses of milk, with observations thereon _ib._
34. Twelve remedies derived from cheese 322
35. Twenty remedies derived from butter 323
36. Oxygala: one remedy 324
37. The various uses of fat, and observations upon it, fifty-two in number _ib._
38. Suet 326
39. Marrow 327
40. Gall _ib._
41. Blood 328
42. 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 _ib._
43. Remedies for the bite of the mad dog. Remedies derived from the calf, the he-goat, and various other animals 331
44. Remedies to be adopted against enchantments. _ib._
45. Remedies for poisons 332
46. Remedies for diseases of the head, and for alopecy 334
47. Remedies for affections of the eyes 335
48. Remedies for diseases and affections of the ears 337
49. Remedies for tooth-ache 338
50. Remedies for diseases of the face 340
51. Remedies for diseases of the tonsillary glands and for scrofula 342
52. Remedies for pains in the neck 343
53. Remedies for cough and for spitting of blood _ib._
54. Remedies for affections of the stomach 344
55. Remedies for liver complaints and for asthma _ib._
56. Remedies for pains in the loins _ib._
57. Remedies for affections of the spleen 345
58. Remedies for bowel complaints 346
59. Remedies for tenesmus, tapeworm, and affections of the colon 348
60. Remedies for affections of the bladder, and for urinary calculi 349
61. Remedies for diseases of the generative organs and of the fundament 350
62. Remedies for gout and for diseases of the feet 352
63. Remedies for epilepsy 353
64. Remedies for jaundice 354
65. Remedies for broken bones _ib._
66. Remedies for fevers _ib._
67. Remedies for melancholy, lethargy, and phthisis 355
68. Remedies for dropsy 356
69. Remedies for erysipelas, and for purulent eruptions 357
70. Remedies for sprains, indurations, and boils _ib._
71. Remedies for burns. The method of testing bull-glue; seven remedies derived from it _ib._
72. Remedies for affections of the sinews and for contusions 358
73. Remedies for hæmorrhage _ib._
74. Remedies for ulcers and carcinomatous sores 359
75. Remedies for the itch 360
76. Methods of extracting foreign substances which adhere body, and of restoring scars to their natural colour _ib._
77. Remedies for female diseases _ib._
78. Remedies for the diseases of infants 364
79. Provocatives of sleep 365
80. Stimulants for the sexual passions _ib._
81. Remarkable facts relative to animals 366
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