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
107. The ephemeron: two remedies 147
108. The labrum Venereum: one remedy 148
109. The batrachion, ranunculus, or strumus; four varieties
of it: fourteen remedies _ib._
110. Remedial preparations for offensive breath: two kinds
of them 150
BOOK XXVI.
A CONTINUATION OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM PLANTS, CLASSIFIED
ACCORDING TO PARTICULAR DISEASES.
1. New forms of disease 152
2. The nature of lichen _ib._
3. At what period lichen first made its appearance in
Italy _ib._
4. Carbuncle 154
5. Elephantiasis _ib._
6. Colic 155
7. The new system of medicine: Asclepiades the physician 156
8. The changes effected by Asclepiades in the practice of
medicine 157
9. Remarks in dispraise of the practices of magic 159
10. Lichen: five remedies 160
11. Quinzy 161
12. Scrofula _ib._
13. The plant called bellis: two remedies 162
14. The condurdum _ib._
15. Cough 163
16. Bechion, otherwise known as arcion, chamæleuce, or
tussilago: three remedies 164
17. The bechion, known also as salvia: four remedies _ib._
18. Affections of the side, chest, and stomach _ib._
19. Molon or syron. Amomum 165
20. The ephedra or anabasis; three remedies 166
21. Geum; three remedies _ib._
22. Tripolium: three remedies 167
23. The gromphæna _ib._
24. The malundrum: two remedies _ib._
25. Chalcetum; two remedies. Molemonium; one remedy 168
26. Halus or cotonea: five remedies 169
27. The chamædrops: one remedy. The stœchas: one remedy _ib._
28. Remedies for diseases of the belly _ib._
29. The astragalus: six remedies 170
30. Ladanum: eighteen remedies 171
31. Chondris or pseudodictamnon: one remedy. Hypocisthis or
orobethron; two varieties: eight remedies 172
32. Laver or sion: two remedies _ib._
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