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Weasel original: "Mustela" 713.3
Weasel meat 781.6
Mussel meat original: "Mutulorum caro"; mussels or similar shellfish were occasionally used in ancient dietary or medicinal preparations ibid. 15
Moss original: "Muscus" 397.13
Gold-of-pleasure original: "Myagros"; an oil-seed plant known today as camelina 488.27
Marrow original: "Myelos"; the Greek term for marrow, often used in anatomical and medicinal contexts 689.13
Mole original: "Myle"; a term used in ancient medicine to describe a hard, millstone-like growth in the uterus 489.9
Mouse-ear original: "Myosotis"; historically referring to various plants with fuzzy leaves, now commonly used for the Forget-me-not 489.14
Myrrh 525.26
Boeotian myrrh 526.15
Myrtle original: "Myrrhine"; a Greek name for myrtle 490.20
Sweet Cicely original: "Myrrhis" ibid. 13
Milfoil original: "Myriophyllon"; literally "thousand-leaf," usually referring to Yarrow ibid. 10
Tamarisk original: "Myrice" 489.18
Myrtle 490.20
Mustard original: "Napy" 493.18
Electric ray original: "Narce"; the torpedo fish, famed in antiquity for its ability to numb or shock, used to treat headaches and other pains 711.21
Narcissus 493.20
Spikenard original: "Nardu stachys"; literally "ear of nard," referring to the flower head 492.20
Celtic nard 493.4
Mountain nard original: "Nardus orea" ibid. 9
Giant fennel original: "Narthex" ibid. 13
Watercress original: "Nasturtium" 435.16
Catmint original: "Nepitha"; likely referring to the genus Nepeta 429.10
Oleander original: "Nerium" 494.3
Nerve-wort original: "Neuras"; a plant believed to be beneficial for nerve ailments 493.25
What are called neutrals referring to substances or qualities that are neither heating nor cooling 42.12
Neutrals are spoken of in three
ways 37.15
In medicines, it is of no use only to have known the general principle 43.21
Water-lily original: "Nymphea" 494.9
Natron natron: a naturally occurring mineral salt (sodium carbonate) used in ancient times for cleaning, embalming, and medicine 604.13. & 723.1
Owl's blood 630.5
Evidence of a medicine's power is not to be sought from its color 4.13
Not every thin substance is hot referring to the "tenuity" or fineness of a substance's constituent parts 40.4
Not every fire is thin 39.10
Not a few openings of the veins and arteries reach into the passages of the skin 21.7
Grape seeds original: "Nuclei acinorum vuæ" 398.5
Nuts 436.26
What nourishment is 1. 27
Campion original: "Ocimoides"; a plant resembling basil 550.18
Basil original: "Ocimon" ibid. 12
Service tree fruit original: "Oë"; the fruit of the Sorbus tree 495.8
Wine original: "Oenos"; the Greek word for wine ibid. 15
Olive tree 407.14