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
89. The arteries; the veins: animals without arteries or veins.
The blood and the sweat 78
90. Animals, the blood of which coagulates with the greatest
rapidity: other animals, the blood of which does not
coagulate. Animals which have the thickest blood: those
the blood of which is the thinnest: animals which have
no blood _ib._
91. Animals which are without blood at certain periods of
the year 79
92. Whether the blood is the principle of life 80
93. The hide of animals _ib._
94. The hair and the covering of the skin 81
95. The paps: birds which have paps. Remarkable facts connected
with the dugs of animals 82
96. The milk: the biestings. Cheese: of what milk cheese cannot
be made. Rennet; the various kinds of aliment in milk 83
97. Various kinds of cheese 85
98. Differences of the members of man from those of other
animals 86
99. The fingers, the arms _ib._
100. Resemblance of the ape to man _ib._
101. The nails 87
102. The knees and the hams _ib._
103. Parts of the human body to which certain religious ideas
are attached 88
104. Varicose veins 88
105. The gait, the feet, the legs 89
106. Hoofs _ib._
107. The feet of birds 90
108. The feet of animals, from those having two feet to those
with a hundred.—Dwarfs 91
109. The sexual parts.—Hermaphrodites _ib._
110. The testes.—The three classes of eunuchs 92
111. The tails of animals _ib._
112. The different voices of animals 93
113. Superfluous limbs 95
114. Signs of vitality and of the moral disposition of man,
from the limbs 96
115. Respiration and nutriment 97
116. Animals which when fed upon poison do not die, and the
flesh of which is poisonous 98
117. Reasons for indigestion. Remedies for crudity _ib._
118. From what causes corpulence arises; how it may be
reduced _ib._
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