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Common reed original: "Calamus phragmites" 432.1
How hot things make us warm 19.5
Not a few hot things are of a thick essence, nor are there fewer of the cold ones 42.23
What is hot in itself 5.14
In what two ways a thing is called hot 26.27
What is understood by a hot medicine 76.7
What heat does 35.29
Our internal heat is of a thick essence and weak 18.19
Lime original: "Calx"; likely quicklime used in caustic preparations 613.19
Hemp original: "Canabis" 432.26
Cancamum original: "Cancanus"; an aromatic resin from an Arabian tree 432.18
Burnt crabs original: "Cancri vsti"; often used in ancient medicine for skin conditions or as an ash 708.27
Cane or Reed original: "Canna" 432.1
Spanish flies original: "Cantharides"; beetles used as a potent, often dangerous, blistering agent 714.16
Caper original: "Capparis" 433.18
Fumitory original: "Capnios"; literally "smoky," used for its liver-cleansing properties 433.3
Goat fat is superior to pig fat, etc. 57.4
Head of hares 691.1
Head of minnows original: "mænidū" 690.23
Head of lizards original: "saurarū" 691.4
Dry charcoal 24.28
Burnt crabs original: "Carcini vsti"; a synonym for the entry in the first column 708.27
Cardamom 436.1
Cress original: "Cardamum" 435.16
Decay of wood 518.24
Carian nut original: "Caria"; likely referring to a walnut or a product from Caria in Asia Minor 436.26
Consideration of meat 671.26 & 679.22
Viper’s flesh 673.4
Caraway original: "Caron" 436.10
Carpesium an aromatic plant used in ancient pharmacy 438.7
Cheese 639.22
Cassia a bark similar to cinnamon 436.15
Castoreum original: "Castorium"; a secretion from the scent glands of beavers 693.14
Bur-parsley original: "Caucalis" 438.2
Horsetail original: "Cauda equina" 424.5
By what reasoning red-hot cauteries stop blood referring to the use of heated metal to sear wounds 32.17
Gall-nut original: "Cecis"; an oak gall used for its astringent properties 445.6
Cedar 439.6
Millet original: "Cenchrum" 438.22
Greater centaury 441.10
Lesser centaury 442.9
Onion original: "Cepa" 464.17
Wax 446.5
Cherry 443.18
Carob tree original: "Ceratonia" 444.13