The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6) — John Shaqi
The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)Pliny, the Elder
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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)
Pliny, the Elder
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.
1. Introduction 275
2. Remedies derived from man 276
3. Whether words are possessed of any healing efficacy 278
4. That prodigies and portents may be confirmed, or made
of no effect 280
5. A description of various usages 283
6. Two hundred and twenty-six observations on remedies
derived from man. Eight remedies derived from
children 286
7. Properties of the human spittle 288
8. Remedies derived from the wax of the human ear 291
9. Remedies derived from the human hair, teeth, &c. _ib._
10. Remedies derived from the human blood, the sexual
congress, &c. 292
11. Remedies derived from the dead _ib._
12. Various reveries and devices of the magicians 293
13. Remedies derived from the human excretions 294
14. Remedies depending upon the human will 295
15. Remedies derived from sneezing 297
16. Remedies derived from the sexual congress _ib._
17. Various other remedies 298
18. Remedies derived from the urine 299
19. Indications of health derived from the urine 301
20. Forty-one remedies derived from the female sex _ib._
21. Remedies derived from woman’s milk 302
22. Remedies derived from the spittle of females 304
23. Facts connected with the menstrual discharge _ib._
24. Remedies derived from foreign animals: the elephant,
eight remedies 307
25. Ten remedies derived from the lion 308
26. Ten remedies derived from the camel _ib._
27. Seventy-nine remedies derived from the hyæna 309
28. Nineteen remedies derived from the crocodile 314
29. Fifteen remedies derived from the chamæleon 315
30. Four remedies derived from the scincus 318
31. Seven remedies derived from the hippopotamus _ib._
32. Five remedies derived from the lynx 319
33. Remedies furnished in common by animals of the same
class, whether wild or tame. Fifty-four medicinal uses
of milk, with observations thereon _ib._
34. Twelve remedies derived from cheese 322
35. Twenty remedies derived from butter 323
36. Oxygala: one remedy 324
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