BOOK XXIX

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REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.

1. The origin of the medical art 370

2. Particulars relative to Hippocrates. Date of the origin of clinical practice and of that of Iatraliptics 371

3. Particulars relative to Chrysippus and Erasistratus _ib._

4. The Empiric branch of medicine 372

5. Particulars relative to Herophilus and other celebrated physicians. The various changes that have been made in the system of medicine _ib._

6. Who first practised as a physician at Rome, and at what period 375

7. The opinions entertained by the Romans on the ancient physicians _ib._

8. Evils attendant upon the practice of medicine 376

9. Thirty-five remedies derived from wool 381

10. Thirty-two remedies derived from wool-grease 383

11. Twenty-two remedies derived from eggs 385

12. Serpents’ eggs 388

13. The method of preparing commagenum. Four remedies derived from it 390

14. Remedies derived from the dog 391

15. Remedies classified according to the different maladies. Remedies for injuries inflicted by serpents. Remedies derived from mice 392

16. Remedies derived from the weasel _ib._

17. Remedies derived from bugs _ib._

18. Particulars relative to the asp 394

19. Remedies derived from the basilisk _ib._

20. Remedies derived from the dragon 395

21. Remedies derived from the viper _ib._

22. Remedies derived from the other serpents 396

23. Remedies derived from the salamander 397

24. Remedies derived from birds, for injuries inflicted by serpents. Remedies derived from the vulture 398

25. Remedies derived from poultry 399

26. Remedies derived from other birds 400

27. Remedies for the bite of the phalangium. The several varieties of that insect, and of the spider _ib._

28. Remedies derived from the stellio, or spotted lizard 402

29. Remedies derived from various insects 403

30. Remedies derived from cantharides _ib._

31. Various counter-poisons 405

32. Remedies for the bite of the mad dog _ib._

33. Remedies for other poisons 407

34. Remedies for alopecy 408

35. Remedies for lice and porrigo 409

36. Remedies for head-ache, and for wounds on the head _ib._

37. Remedies for affections of the eyelids 410

38. Remedies for diseases of the eyes 411

39. Remedies for pains and diseases of the ears 416

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