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BOOK XXIII

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THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE CULTIVATED TREES.

1. Introduction 457

2. The vine _ib._

3. The leaves and shoots of the vine: seven remedies 458

4. Omphacium extracted from the vine: fourteen remedies 459

5. Œnanthe: twenty-one remedies 460

6. Grapes, fresh gathered 461

7. Various kinds of preserved grapes: eleven remedies _ib._

8. Cuttings of the vine: one remedy 462

9. Grape-stones: six remedies _ib._

10. Grape-husks: eight remedies 463

11. The grapes of the theriaca: four remedies _ib._

12. Raisins, or astaphis: fourteen remedies _ib._

13. The astaphis agria, otherwise called staphis or taminia: twelve remedies 464

14. The labrusca, or wild vine: twelve remedies 465

15. The salicastrum: twelve remedies _ib._

16. The white vine, otherwise called ampeloleuce, staphyle, melothron, psilotrum, archezostis, cedrostis, or madon: thirty-one remedies 466

17. The black vine, otherwise called bryonia, chironia, gynæcanthe, or apronia: thirty-five remedies 468

18. Must: fifteen remedies _ib._

19. Particulars relative to wine 469

20. The Surrentine wines: three remedies. The Alban wines: two remedies. The Falernian wines: six remedies 470

21. The Setine wines; one observation upon them. The Statan wines; one observation upon them. The Signian wines: one remedy 471

22. Other wines: sixty-four remedies _ib._

23. Sixty-one observations relative to wine 473

24. In what maladies wine should be administered; how it should be administered, and at what times 474

25. Ninety-one observations with reference to wine 477

26. Artificial wines _ib._

27. Vinegar: twenty-eight remedies 478

28. Squill vinegar: seventeen remedies 480

29. Oxymeli: seven remedies 481

30. Sapa: seven remedies _ib._

31. Lees of wine: twelve remedies 482

32. Lees of vinegar: seventeen remedies 483

33. Lees of sapa: four remedies 484

34. The leaves of the olive-tree: twenty-three remedies _ib._

35. The blossom of the olive: four remedies _ib._

36. White olives: four remedies. Black olives: three remedies 485

37. Amurca of olives: twenty-one remedies 486

38. The leaves of the wild olive: sixteen remedies 487

39. Omphacium: three remedies 488

40. Oil of œnanthe: twenty-eight remedies _ib._

41. Castor oil: sixteen remedies 489

42. Oil of almonds: sixteen remedies 490

43. Oil of laurel: nine remedies _ib._

44. Oil of myrtle: twenty remedies _ib._

45. Oil of chamæmyrsine, or oxymyrsine; oil of cypros; oil of citrus; oil of walnuts; oil of cnidium; oil of mastich; oil of balanus; various remedies 491

46. The cyprus, and the oil extracted from it; sixteen remedies. Gleucinum: one remedy 492

47. Oil of balsamum: fifteen remedies _ib._

48. Malobathrum: five remedies 493

49. Oil of henbane: two remedies. Oil of lupines: one remedy. Oil of narcissus: one remedy. Oil of radishes: five remedies. Oil of sesame: three remedies. Oil of lilies: three remedies. Oil of Selga: one remedy. Oil of Iguvium: one remedy _ib._

50. Elæomeli: two remedies. Oil of pitch: two remedies 494

51. The palm: nine remedies _ib._

52. The palm which produces the myrobalanum: three remedies 495

53. The palm called elate: sixteen remedies _ib._

54. Remedies derived from the blossoms, leaves, fruit, branches, bark, juices, roots, wood, and ashes of various kinds of trees. Six observations upon apples. Twenty-two observations upon quinces. One observation upon struthea 496

55. The sweet apples called melimela: six observations upon them. Sour apples: four observations upon them 497

56. Citrons: five observations upon them 498

57. Punic apples, or pomegranates: twenty-six remedies _ib._

58. The composition called stomatice: fourteen remedies 499

59. Cytinus: eight remedies 500

60. Balaustium: twelve remedies _ib._

61. The wild pomegranate 501

62. Pears: twelve observations upon them 502

63. Figs: one hundred and eleven observations upon them _ib._

64. The wild fig: forty-two observations upon it 505

65. The herb crineon: three remedies 507

66. Plums: four observations upon them _ib._

67. Peaches: two remedies 508

68. Wild plums; two remedies _ib._

69. The lichen on plum-trees; two remedies _ib._

70. Mulberries; thirty-nine remedies _ib._

71. The medicament called stomatice, arteriace, or panchrestos; four remedies 509

72. Cherries: five observations upon them 511

73. Medlars: two remedies. Sorbs: two remedies 512

74. Pine-nuts: thirteen remedies _ib._

75. Almonds: twenty-nine remedies _ib._

76. Greek nuts: one remedy 513

77. Walnuts: twenty-four remedies. The Mithridatic antidote 514

78. Hazel-nuts: three observations upon them. Pistachio-nuts: eight observations upon them. Chesnuts: five observations upon them 515

79. Carobs: five observations upon them. The cornel: one remedy. The fruit of the arbutus 516

80. The laurel: sixty-nine observations upon it _ib._

81. Myrtle: sixty observations upon it 519

82. Myrtidanum: thirteen remedies 521

83. The wild myrtle, otherwise called oxymyrsine, or chamæmyrsine, and the ruscus: six remedies _ib._

NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY.

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