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Panic grass original: "Panicum"; a genus of grasses including common millet 413.7
Sea daffodil original: "Pancratium" 499.22
Poppy original: "Papauer" 483.9
Horned poppy original: "Papauer cornutū" 484.17
Hercules' poppy original: "Papauer herculeum"; likely referring to the great scarlet poppy 485.3
Papyrus 500.9
Leopard's-bane original: "Pardalianches" 370.11
Whitlow-grass original: "Paronychia" 501.18
Something flows into the painful parts 40.28
Parsnip or carrot original: "Pastinaca" 527.22
Rue original: "Peganon" 505.13
Sheepskin original: "Pellis ouina" 697.27
Cinquefoil original: "Pentaphyllum"; literally "five-leaf" 510.29
Pepper original: "Peperi" 502.18
Water-purslane original: "Peplium" ibid. 11
Petty spurge original: "Peplos" ibid. 7
Honeysuckle original: "Periclymenos" 503.6
Vervain original: "Peristereon" ibid. 22
Persea tree original: "Persea"; an ancient Egyptian tree prized for its fruit 503.1
What it is to act through itself, and by accident original: "Per se agere, & per accidens"; a philosophical distinction regarding whether a cause is direct or secondary 3.24
Butterbur original: "Petasites" 503.27
Parsley original: "Petroselinum" 504.2
Hog's fennel original: "Peucedanum" ibid. 16
Lentils original: "Phaci" 543.4
Lentil or freckle original: "Phacos"; the Greek term can refer both to the pulse and to lentil-shaped skin marks ibid. 12
Spiderwort original: "Phalangites"; believed to cure the bite of the phalangium spider ibid. 21
Canary grass original: "Phaleris" ibid. 15
Medicines with a warm potency do not appear to heat unless they are finely ground 17.18
Medicines that heat medicinally make that which is affected even colder 7.21
Kidney beans original: "Phasiolon" 425.24
Seaweed original: "Phycos" 545.24 and 614.12
Hart's-tongue fern original: "Phyllitis" 545.28
Malabathrum leaf original: "Phyllon malabathrū"; aromatic leaves of the cinnamon tree 646.3 & 619.11
Mullein original: "Phlomus" 543.26
Seal's rennet original: "Phocæ coagulū"; the curdled stomach contents of a seal, used as a medicinal agent 644.1
Date palm original: "Phænix" 544.13
Euphorbium original: "Phorbion"; the caustic resin of a spurge plant 545.11
Phrygian stone original: "Phrygius"; an astringent mineral used in dyeing and medicine 584.10
Valerian original: "Phu" 545.18
Burnt hair 703.5
Pitch pine original: "Picea" 507.6
Pycnocomon original: "Pycnocomum"; a plant described by Dioscorides, likely a type of scabious 512.15
Fat and lard 682.28
How fatty things differ from sweet ones 65.1