Eight Books on Medicine

beant part of a preceding word. 72
Regarding antidotes, and which evils they may remedy. 72
Composition of an antidote. 72
Another antidote, called Ambrosian, which Zopyrus composed for King Ptolemy. 72
Mithridates's antidote. 72
Regarding acopa remedies for fatigue. 72
An acopum useful for all nerves. 72
Ointments for cleansing and filling ulcers. 73
For sacrum ignem holy fire / erysipelas. 73
Regarding pills. 73
A pill effective for sleep. 73
A pill for alleviating many pains through sleep. 73
Another pill effective for many things. 73
A pill for inducing sleep: which a painful womb prevented. 73
For healing the liver. 73
For ending pains of the side. 73
For ending pains of the chest. 73
Athenion's pill for a cough. 74
Heraclides of Tarentum's pill for cough and sleep. 74
A pill for cleansing ulcers in the throats of those coughing. 74
Cassius the physician's eye salve. 74
For a dead infant, or for expelling the afterbirth. 74
What should be given to those suffering from childbirth. 74
For aiding the voice. 74
Against difficulty of urine. 74
How the composition of arteriaces remedy for the windpipe is made. 74
Regarding five kinds of bodily injuries, and first regarding wounds,

which are mostly inflicted by weapons. 74
Which wounds are incurable. 74
Which wounds have a difficult treatment. 75
Which wounds have a safer treatment. 75
Certain observations regarding age, body, life, and time in wounds. 75
Signs of a struck heart. 75
Signs of a struck lung. 75
Signs of a wounded liver. 75
Signs of struck kidneys. 75
Signs of a wounded spleen. 75
Signs of a struck womb. 75
Signs of a struck brain, or its membrane. 76
Signs of a struck stomach. 76
Signs of a wounded empty intestine and belly, and other intestines. 76
Signs of a struck marrow, which is in the spine. 76
Signs of a struck diaphragm. 76
Signs of a wounded bladder. 76
Regarding blood, sanies thin, watery discharge, and pus, and their species, and when they are better or worse. 76
Treatment against the profusion of blood in wounds. 76
Treatments against the inflammation of wounds. 77
Regarding the gluing together of wounds. 77
How a wound should be bandaged. 78
Regarding the regimen of life, and the signs of wounds, and their treatments. 78
Specific treatments of joints. 78
How a wound is to be cleansed. 79