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
41. Cynoglossos: three remedies 110
42. The buphthalmos or cachla: one remedy _ib._
43. Plants which have been discovered by certain nations.
The scythice: one remedy _ib._
44. The hippace: three remedies 111
45. The ischæmon: two remedies _ib._
46. The cestros, psychotrophon, vettonica, or serratula:
forty-eight remedies _ib._
47. The cantabrica: two remedies 112
48. Consiligo: one remedy _ib._
49. The iberis: seven remedies 113
50. Plants which have been discovered by certain animals.
Chelidonia: six remedies 114
51. The dog-plant: one remedy _ib._
52. The elaphoboscon 115
53. Dictamnon; eight remedies. Pseudodictamnon or chondris.
In what places the most powerful plants are found.
How that milk is drunk in Arcadia for the beneficial
effects of the plants upon which the cattle feed _ib._
54. The aristolochia, clematitis, cretica, plistolochia,
lochia polyrrhizos, or apple of the earth: twenty-two
remedies 116
55. The employment of these plants for injuries inflicted
by serpents 118
56. The argemonia: four remedies 119
57. Agaric: thirty-three remedies 120
58. The echios; three varieties of it: two remedies _ib._
59. Hierabotane, peristereon, or verbenaca; two varieties
of it: ten remedies 121
60. The blattaria: one remedy 122
61. Lemonium: one remedy _ib._
62. Quinquefolium, known also as pentapetes, pentaphyllon,
or chamæzelon: thirty-three remedies _ib._
63. The sparganion: one remedy 123
64. Four varieties of the daucus: eighteen remedies _ib._
65. The therionarca: two remedies 124
66. The persolata or areion: eight remedies _ib._
67. Cyclaminos or tuber terræ: twelve remedies 125
68. The cyclaminos cissanthemos: four remedies _ib._
69. The cyclaminos chamæcissos: three remedies 126
70. Peucedanum: twenty-eight remedies _ib._
71. Ebulum: six remedies 127
72. Polemonia: one remedy _ib._
73. Phlomos or verbascum: fifteen remedies _ib._
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