The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)Pliny, the Elder
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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)
Pliny, the Elder
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
64. How an estimate is formed of the age of animals from their
teeth 60
65. The tongue; animals which have no tongue. The noise made
by frogs. The palate 61
66. The tonsils; the uvula; the epiglossis; the tracheal
artery; the gullet 62
67. The neck; the throat; the dorsal spine 63
68. The throat; the gullet; the stomach 64
69. The heart; the blood; the vital spirit _ib._
70. Those animals which have the largest heart, and those
which have the smallest. What animals have two hearts 65
71. When the custom was first adopted of examining the heart
in the inspection of the entrails 66
72. The lungs: in what animals they are the largest, and in
what the smallest. Animals which have nothing but lungs
in the interior of the body. Causes which produce
extraordinary swiftness in animals 67
73. The liver; in what animals, and in what part there are two
livers found _ib._
74. The gall; where situate, and in what animals it is double.
Animals which have no gall, and others in which it is
not situate in the liver 68
75. The properties of the gall 69
76. In what animals the liver increases and decreases with the
moon. Observations on the aruspices relative thereto, and
remarkable prodigies 70
77. The diaphragm. The nature of laughter _ib._
78. The belly: animals which have no belly. Which are the only
animals that vomit 71
79. The small guts, the front intestines, the anus, the
colon. The causes of the insatiate voracity of certain
animals _ib._
80. The omentum: the spleen; animals which are without it 73
81. The kidneys: animals which have four kidneys. Animals which
have none _ib._
82. The breast: the ribs 74
83. The bladder: animals which have no bladder _ib._
84. The womb: the womb of the sow: the teats 75
85. Animals which have suet: animals which do not grow fat _ib._
86. The marrow: animals which have no marrow 76
87. Bones and fish-bones: animals which have neither.
Cartilages 77
88. The nerves: animals which have none _ib._
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