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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