BOOK XX
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REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE GARDEN PLANTS.
1. Introduction 206
2. The wild cucumber: twenty-six remedies 207
3. Elaterium: twenty-seven remedies 208
4. The anguine or erratic cucumber: five remedies 209
5. The cultivated cucumber: nine remedies 210
6. Pepones: eleven remedies 211
7. The gourd: seventeen remedies. The somphus: one remedy 212
8. The colocynthis: ten remedies _ib._
9. Rape: nine remedies 213
10. Wild rape: one remedy 214
11. Turnips; those known as bunion and bunias: five remedies _ib._
12. The wild radish, or armoracia: one remedy 215
13. The cultivated radish: forty-three remedies _ib._
14. The parsnip: five remedies. The hibiscum, wild mallow, or plistolochia: eleven remedies 218
15. The staphylinos, or wild parsnip: twenty-two remedies _ib._
16. Gingidion: one remedy 219
17. The skirret: eleven remedies 220
18. Sile, or hartwort: twelve remedies 221
19. Elecampane: eleven remedies 222
20. Onions: twenty-seven remedies _ib._
21. Cutleek: thirty-two remedies 223
22. Bulbed leek: thirty-nine remedies 225
23. Garlic: sixty-one remedies _ib._
24. The lettuce: forty-two remedies. The goat-lettuce: four remedies 228
25. Cæsapon: one remedy. Isatis: one remedy. The wild lettuce: seven remedies _ib._
26. Hawk-weed: seventeen remedies 229
27. Beet: twenty-four remedies 232
28. Limonion, or neuroides: three remedies 233
29. Endive: three remedies _ib._
30. Cichorium or chreston, otherwise called pancration or ambula: twelve remedies 234
31. Hedypnoïs: four remedies _ib._
32. Seris, three varieties of it: seven remedies borrowed from it 235
33. The cabbage: eighty-seven remedies. Recipes mentioned by Cato _ib._
34. Opinions of the Greeks relative thereto 237
35. Cabbage-sprouts 239
36. The wild cabbage: thirty-seven remedies 240
37. The lapsana: one remedy 241
38. The sea-cabbage: one remedy _ib._
39. The squill: twenty-three remedies _ib._
40. Bulbs: thirty remedies 243
41. Bulbine: one remedy. Bulb emetic 244
42. Garden asparagus; with the next, twenty-four remedies 245
43. Corruda, libycura, or orminum _ib._
44. Parsley: seventeen remedies 246
45. Apiastrum, or melissophyllum 247
46. Olusatrum or Hipposelinon: eleven remedies. Oreoselinon: two remedies. Helioselinon: one remedy 248
47. Petroselinon: one remedy. Buselinon: one remedy _ib._
48. Ocimum: thirty-five remedies 249
49. Rocket: twelve remedies 250
50. Nasturtium: forty-two remedies 251
51. Rue: eighty-four remedies 252
52. Wild mint: twenty remedies 256
53. Mint: forty-one remedies 257
54. Pennyroyal: twenty-five remedies 259
55. Wild pennyroyal: seventeen remedies 260
56. Nep: nine remedies 261
57. Cummin: forty-eight remedies. Wild cummin: twenty-six remedies 262
58. Ammi: ten remedies 263
59. The capparis or caper: eighteen remedies 264
60. Ligusticum, or lovage: four remedies 265
61. Cunila bubula: five remedies _ib._
62. Cunila gallinacea, or origanum: five remedies 266
63. Cunilago: eight remedies _ib._
64. Soft cunila: three remedies. Libanotis: three remedies _ib._
65. Cultivated cunila: three remedies. Mountain cunila: seven remedies 267
66. Piperitis, or siliquastrum: five remedies _ib._
67. Origanum, onitis, or prasion: six remedies 268
68. Tragoriganum: nine remedies _ib._
69. Three varieties of Heracleotic origanum: thirty remedies _ib._
70. Dittander: three remedies 270
71. Gith, or melanthion: twenty-three remedies _ib._
72. Anise: sixty-one remedies 271
73. Where the best anise is found: various remedies derived from this plant 272
74. Dill: nine remedies 274
75. Sacopenium, or sagapenon: thirteen remedies _ib._
76. The white poppy: three remedies. The black poppy: eight remedies. Remarks on sleep. Opium. Remarks in disfavour of the potions known as “anodynes, febrifuges, digestives, and cœliacs.” In what way the juices of these plants are to be collected 275
77. The poppy called rhœas: two remedies 278
78. The wild poppy called ceratitis, glaucium, or paralium: six remedies _ib._
79. The wild poppy called heraclium, or aphron: four remedies. Diacodion _ib._
80. The poppy called tithymalon, or paralion: three remedies 279
81. Porcillaca or purslain, otherwise called peplis: twenty-five remedies 280
82. Coriander: twenty-one remedies 282
83. Orage: fourteen remedies _ib._
84. The mallow called malope: thirteen remedies. The mallow called malache: one remedy. The mallow called althæa or plistolochia: fifty-nine remedies 283
85. Wild lapathum or oxalis, otherwise called lapathum cantherinum, or rumex: one remedy. Hydrolapathum: two remedies. Hippolapathum: six remedies. Oxylapathum: four remedies 287
86. Cultivated lapathum: twenty-one remedies. Bulapathum: one remedy 288
87. Mustard, the three kinds of it: forty-four remedies _ib._
88. Adarca: forty-eight remedies 290
89. Marrubium or prasion, otherwise linostrophon, philopais, or philochares: twenty-nine remedies _ib._
90. Wild thyme: eighteen remedies 292
91. Sisymbrium or thymbræum: twenty-three remedies 293
92. Linseed: thirty remedies 294
93. Blite: six remedies 295
94. Meum, and meum athamanticum: seven remedies _ib._
95. Fennel: twenty-two remedies 296
96. Hippomarathron, or myrsineum: five remedies _ib._
97. Hemp: nine remedies 297
98. Fennel-giant: eight remedies 298
99. The thistle or scolymos: six remedies 299
100. The composition of theriaca _ib._
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