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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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