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Plum tree original: "Prunus" 451.25
False dittany original: "Pseudodictamũ" 550.4
Betony original: "Psycrotrophũ"; literally "that which is nourished in the cold" 444.22
Fleawort original: "Psyllium" 550.7
White lead original: "Psimythium"; a lead-based substance used in ointments 619.1
Psoricum original: "Psoricum"; a medicinal preparation used to treat the "psora" or skin itch in the same place.16
Sneezewort original: "Ptarmice" 511 16
Elm tree original: "Ptelea" in the same place.23
Fern original: "Pteris" 512.5
Barley water is by its nature of good juice original: "Ptisana sua natura est boni succi"; Galen frequently discusses "juice" (succus) as the nutritional quality of a substance 97.11
Pennyroyal original: "Pulegium" 399.3
Lamb's lung and pig's lung original: "Pulmo agninus, & porcinus" 692.1
Pumice stone original: "Pumex" 579. 27. & 601.14
Pure water is judged by three senses original: "Pura aqua iudicatur tribus sensibus" 10.7
Things of the same consistency that are frozen more quickly by cold are colder original: "Quãe consistentiã habentia eandẽ ocyus à frigore congelantur, frigidiora sunt" 27.16
Things that seem to heat us, receiving the beginning of their change from our own heat, heat us in turn original: "Quae nos excalfacere videtur, mutationis principium à nostro calore accipientia, nos recalfa ciunt" 18.25
That which is purely water,
is necessarily cold in itself original: "ea necessariò ex se est frigida" 8.21
Why vinegar leavens the earth is unknown original: "Quare acetum terram fermentet, ignoratur"; likely referring to the effervescent reaction of vinegar on certain minerals 49.2
Subject of the fourth book of Simple Medicines original: "Quarti libri Simplic. argumentum" 67.21
Oak tree original: "Quercus" 405.17
What hot water tempered with cold water does original: "Quid aqua calida frigida temperat aque agat" 84.19
What is discussed in the third book of Simple Medicines original: "Quid in 3.lib. Simplic. tractatur" 67.17
The thick sediment that settles in liquids other than wine and oil lacks a proper name original: "Quod in alijs à vino & oleo liquoribus subsidit crassum, nomine caret proprio" 31.10
How that which soothes by itself is distinguished from that which soothes by accident original: "Quod per se lenit, quomodo distinguitur ab eo quod per accidens" 98.19
How cold water heats, and how hot water cools original: "Quõ aqua frigida calfacit, quo item calida frigefacit" 3.24. & 29
How cold oil is prepared original: "Quomodo frigidum paratur oleum" 86.10
In what way it is necessary to indicate each faculty original: "Quo pacto quanque indicare facultatẽ oportet" 3.13. & 5.28