Eight Books on Medicine

Regarding diseases of the throat and their treatments, and first angina, then difficulty in breathing, and finally cough. 50
Regarding difficulty in breathing. 51
Regarding cough. 51
Regarding diseases of the stomach and their treatments. 52
Regarding pains in the sides. 53
Regarding diseases of the viscera: first the lung, then the liver, then the spleen, and finally the kidneys. 54
Regarding disease of the liver and its treatment. 55
Regarding disease of the spleen and its treatment. 55
Regarding diseases of the kidneys and their treatments. 55
Regarding diseases of the intestines, and first, cholera. 56
Regarding the coeliac disease of the stomach. 56
Regarding disease of the small intestine. 57
Regarding disease of the large intestine. 57
Regarding griping, that is, dysentery. 57
Regarding the smoothness laxity of the intestines. 58
Regarding worms occupying the bowels. 58
Regarding tenesmus, a disease of the intestines. 58
Regarding the flux of the belly and its treatment. 59
Regarding disease of the womb and its treatments. 59
Regarding excessive flow from the female natural parts. 60
Regarding diseases of the hips and their treatments. 60
Regarding pains in the knees and their treatment. 60
Regarding pains of the joints in the hands and feet. 61

Regarding the simple faculties of any things whatsoever from which medicines are made, and first, those that suppress blood. 62
Those that glue a wound together. 62
Those that ripen and move pus. 62
Those that open wounds. 62
Those that purge. 62
Those that gnaw. 62
Those that consume the body. 63
Those that burn. 63
Those that induce scabs on ulcers. 63
Those that dissolve scabs on ulcers. 63
Those that disperse those things that have gathered in some part of the body. 63
Those that call forth and draw out. 63
Those that relieve irritated parts. 63
Those that nourish flesh and fill an ulcer. 63
Those that soften. 63
Those that purge the skin. 63
Regarding the mixtures of simple things, and regarding the method of weights, and how a malagma emollient plaster/poultice, an emplastrum plaster, and a pastillus lozenge/medicinal cake differ from one another. 63
Regarding malagmata. 64
A malagma for extracting matter. 64
A malagma for an aching liver. 64
A malagma for the spleen. 64
A malagma for pains in the sides. 64
Malagmata for resolving those things which are constricted, softening those which are hard, and digesting those which are gathered. 65
Another malagma for the same. 65
Musk malagma for softening. 65