Natural History

Medicines for sneezes, fingers, chest, and cough Ch. 5.
On verbascum mullein, chamaeleuce or tussilago coltsfoot, bechium a cough plant, aquellea, and salvia sage Ch. 6.
Medicines for side and chest pains, orthopnoea difficulty breathing unless upright, liver pain, heart pain, lungs, urine, cough, chest, lung ulcers, spleen, liver, vomiting, hiccups, and pleurisy side pains Ch. 7.
On all stomach ailments and their remedies for what is around or inside it, and on stopping or loosening the bowels Ch. 8.
On puleium pennyroyal and argemone a poppy Ch. 9.
On nymphea water lily, and the abstinence or appetite for sexual intercourse, and on satyrium an orchid, erythrococcus a red berry, crategus, and sideritis ironwort Ch. 10.
General medicines for feet, ankles, joints, nerves, and remedies against diseases that occupy the whole body, and on myrtidanum myrtle extract, insomnia, paralysis, and on cold fevers, fever of beasts, madness, chamaeacte dwarf elder, aizoon houseleek, and the sacred fire ergotism or shingles Ch. 11.
For dislocated limbs, and against the royal disease jaundice, and against boils, fistulas, swellings, burns, and against other diseases of the nerves and blood Ch. 12.
On the herb horsetail, stephanomelon, erisithales, and against worms Ch. 13.
On ulcers, wounds, and on polichnemon a plant Ch. 14.
On very many experiments for dyeing hair, expelling or retaining the fetus, and remedies for others Ch. 15.
Sum of medicines, history, and observations: 1,291.

FROM THE AUTHORS:
M. Varro, C. Valgius, Pompeius Lenaeus, Sextius Niger (who wrote in Greek), Iulius Bassus (who did the same), Antonius Castor, Cornelius Celsus.

EXTERNALS:
Theophrastus, Apollodorus, Democritus, Iuba, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Mago, Menander (who wrote on agriculture), Nicander, Homer, Hesiod, Musaeus, Sophocles, Xanthus, Anaxilaus.

PHYSICIANS:
Mnesteus, Callimachus, Phanias the physicist, Cimarchus, Simon, Hippocrates, Chrysippus, Diocles, Opion, Heraclides, Hicesius, Dionysius, Apollodorus of Citium, Apollodorus of Tarentum, Praxagoras, Phistionicus the physician, Dieuches, Cleophantus, Philistion, Asclepiades, Crateuas, Iollas, Erasistratus, Diagoras, Andreas, Mnesicles, Epicharmus, Demion, Theopolemus, Metrodorus, Solon, Lycius, Olympias of Thebes, Philinus, Petreius, Myction, Glaucias, Xenocrates.

BOOK TWENTY-SEVENTH contains the remaining kinds of herbs.
On aconitum wolfsbane and the panther, which is extinguished by aconite Ch. 1.
That God has created everything for the benefit of all creatures Ch. 2.

On aethiopis, amaranthus amaranth, aloe aloe, alcea hollyhock, aliphus, alsima water plantain, androsace, adroscum, abrosia, acconium, anagyris stinking bean trefoil, and acnymon Ch. 3.
On aparine cleavers, arctium burdock, asplenum spleenwort, asclepiades, and osiris or bubonium, and ascyron or alcyroides, and aphace, and on alcibium and alean orolophus Ch. 4.
On alo aloe Ch. 5.
On alga seaweed and actaea, and on apelosagria and absinthium wormwood Ch. 6.
On absinthium wormwood, ballote black horehound, botrys fruticosa, bratylla, brio, bupleuron hare's ear, catanance, calli, circaea, circelium, trategonum, theligonum, crocodilium, cynosorchis dog's orchid, chrysolachanon, cuculus, and conserva Ch. 7.
On coccus gnidius daphne berry, diopteris, dryphonum, elatine fluellin, empetrum crowberry or calcifraga, epicantid or helleborine, epimedium, eneaphyllon nine-leafed plant, filixepteris male fern, and on ox-thigh Ch. 9 error in source numbering.
On glaucium, glycyfida, gnaphalium cudweed or chamaezelon, galedragon, holcus, hyosiris, holosteum, and hypopaestum Ch. 10.
On hypoglossa butcher's broom, and for trembling dropsical people against orthopnoeic images and beginning paralysis Ch. 11.
On medium, myosota forget-me-not, myagrum gold-of-pleasure, natrix, othone, onosma, onopordum cotton thistle, osiris, oxys, and batrachion buttercup, polygonum knotgrass, leucanthemum ox-eye daisy, plythea, phyllon, phellandrium, phaleri, polyrrhizon, serpyllum wild thyme, and on rhecoma, reseda mignonette, and stoechas lavender Ch. 12.
On solanum nightshade, smyrnium alexanders, telephium orpine, trichomanes, thalietrum, thlaspi shepherd's purse, thragonia, tragoni, trago, tragologon, and spondylus cow parsnip; and which diseases are natural in which nations Ch. 13.
Sum of medicines, history, and observations: 602.

FROM THE AUTHORS:
Pompeius Lenaeus, Sextius Niger (who wrote in Greek), Iulius Bassus (who did the same), Antonius Castor, Cornelius Celsus.

EXTERNALS:
Theophrastus, Apollodorus (who did the same), Democritus, Aristogiton, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Mago, Menander (who wrote on agriculture), Nicander.

PHYSICIANS:
Mnesteus, Callimachus, Timaristus, Simon, Hippocrates, Chrysippus, Diocles, Opion, Heraclides, Hicesius, Dionysius, Apollodorus of Citium, Apollodorus of Tarentum, Praxagoras, Philistionide the physician, Dieuches, Cleophantus, Philistion, Asclepiades, Crateuas, Iollas, Erasistratus, Diagoras, Andreas, Mnesicles, Epicharmus, Demion, Sosimenes, Theopolemus, Metrodorus, Solon, Lycius, Olympias of Thebes, Philinus, Petreius, Myction, Glaucias, Xenocrates.

BOOK TWENTY-EIGHTH contains medicines from animals.
Whether there is any power of words in healing, and how it is cured and dispelled Ch. 1.