Eight Books on Medicine

Another dià sapridōn for decayed matter for extracting and moving pus. 68
Philocrates's plaster for extracting and moving pus. 68
Iatrōdes physician-like plaster for extracting. 68
Hecateus's plaster for extracting. 69
Alexandrian green plaster for extracting. 69
Regarding consuming emplastra plasters. 69
A plaster that eats away the body, dissolves bones, and restrains overgrowing flesh. 69
Plasters against bites and other more recent wounds. 69
Emphaion vivid/bright red plaster effective for the same. 69
Another plaster effective for the same. 69
White leuka white plasters adapted for not-serious wounds, and especially those in the elderly. 69
Elephantine plaster. 69
Mild plasters. 69
Mild plaster. 69
Archagathus's mild plaster. 69
Plasters of the same kind adapted for soothing. 70
Regarding lozenges pastilli, and first regarding those which are adapted for gluing together and healing recent wounds. 70
Another lozenge for gluing together wounds. 70
Regarding the sphragis seal/signature lozenge, which Polybus prepared, for gluing together a wound. 70
A lozenge for filthy ulcers and blackness in the ears, nostrils, hidden parts, and their inflammations. 70

Andron's lozenge for an inflamed womb, and for filthy natural parts even suffering from cancer. 70
A lozenge for fissures of the anus, or the mouths of veins pouring out blood, or cancer. 70
A lozenge for expelling a stone with urine. 70
Regarding pessaries pessi. 70
For calling forth blood. 70
For softening the womb. 70
Another composition of pessary effective for the same. 71
Numenius's pessary for inflammations of the womb. 71
For ejecting a dead infant from the womb. 71
If a woman is suffering from a defect of the parts, what treatment should be used. 71
Regarding medicines that we use dry, for consuming overgrowing flesh. 71
For restraining putrid flesh so that it does not creep further, and for gently consuming it, several compositions. 71
Hiera composition. 71
Jewish composition. 71
Iola's composition. 71
For flows of blood, either from the membrane of the brain or other places, and for cancer, and for inducing a scar, and for restraining growing flesh. 71
Timaeus's composition for the holy fire erysipelas or cancer. 72
For exciting sneezes. 72
Gargarizations gargles which should be made. 72