Eight Books on Medicine

For suppressing loose bowels and dysentery. 156
For purging worms and larvae. 156
For calming the colon. 156
For purging the bladder and stones, and for provoking urine. 156
Regarding conception and childbirth. 157
For any flux of blood and for the womb. 157
For killing any hairs that irritate the eyes. 157
For treating all obscene private/genital ailments. 157
For sciatica and joint disease. 158
For treating a boil. 158
For treating an anthrax. 158
For dispelling bread-like swellings a type of tumor, abscesses, and glandular swellings. 158
For treating the sacred fire erysipelas. 159
For dispelling gout. 159
For wounds made by iron or blows. 159
For wounds caused by any accidents. 159
For bites from a human or an ape. 159
For bites of serpents and for dispelling poisons. 159
For stings of scorpions and bites of the blind mouse or spider. 160
For sudden pain, fever, and bone pain. 160
For the type of quartan fever. 160
For the type of tertian fever. 161
For the type of quotidian fever. 161
For dispelling semi-tertian fever. 161
For healing fractures and dislocations. 161
For nerves that are cut, painful, or contracted. 161
For inducing sleep in the sick. 161
For dispelling lethargy. 162

For treating the falling sickness epilepsy. 162
For dispelling the royal disease jaundice. 162
For infants troubled by teeth or nocturnal spirits. 162
For burns caused by fire or cold. 162
For prohibiting poisons. 162
For administered poisons. 162
For healing wounds and doubtful matters. 163
For removing warts. 163
For treating hemorrhoids. 163
For dispelling paralysis; this is to be done on the first day. 163
On the second day, this is to be treated thus. 163
On the third day, this is to be cured thus. 163
What is to be done on the fourth day and the rest. 164

John B. Fran. Guidon
Medicine: Aesculapius