The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6)Pliny, the Elder
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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6)
Pliny, the Elder
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
60. Fine flour: five remedies. Puls: one remedy. Meal used
for pasting papyrus, one remedy _ib._
61. Alica: six remedies 443
62. Millet: six remedies 444
63. Panic: four remedies _ib._
64. Sesame: seven remedies. Sesamoides: three remedies.
Anticyricum: three remedies _ib._
65. Barley: nine remedies. Mouse-barley, by the Greeks called
phœnice: one remedy 445
66. Ptisan: four remedies 446
67. Amylum: eight remedies. Oats: one remedy _ib._
68. Bread: twenty-one remedies 447
69. Beans: sixteen remedies _ib._
70. Lentils: seventeen remedies 448
71. The elelisphacos, sphacos, or salvia: thirteen remedies 449
72. The chickpea and the chicheling vetch: twenty-three
remedies 450
73. The fitch: twenty remedies 451
74. Lupines: thirty-five remedies 452
75. Irio or erysimum, by the Gauls called vela: fifteen
remedies 453
76. Horminum: six remedies 454
77. Darnel: five remedies _ib._
78. The plant miliaria: one remedy 455
79. Bromos: one remedy _ib._
80. Orobanche or cynomorion: one remedy _ib._
81. Remedies for injuries inflicted by insects which breed
among leguminous plants _ib._
82. The use made of the yeast of zythum 456
BOOK XXIII.
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._
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