INDEX. 



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of, 94— prognostics from, 

 iv. 124 — remedies derived 

 from, V. 400. See also 

 " Singing of bird 

 Births, marvellous, ii. 134- 

 138— monstrous, 142, 144. 



Birthwort, v. 117. 



Bison, ii, 262. 



Bithus, V. 368. 



Bithynia described, i. 493. 



Bitonto, i. 230. 



Bitumen, ii. 152; iii. 364 

 vi. 293, 294— of Judaea, v. 

 222, 305. 



Bituriges, i. 359. 



Biuri, V. 469. 



Bizya, i. 307. 



Bladder, iii. 74 — aHimals 

 destitute of, 74— diseases 

 of the, V. 182, 183, 443, 

 444 ; vi. 41, 42. 



Blachnon, v. 245, 246. 



Blackberries, iii. 411 ; v. 

 47, 49. 



Blackbird, ii. 509— white 

 512. 



Black Forest, i. 328. 



Black marble, vi. 325. 



Black stones, vi. 358. 



Black vine, iv. 4SS. 



Blasting winds, i. 80. 



Blattaria, v. 122. 



Blechnon, iv. 261. 



Blemmyse, i. 405. 



Blendius, vi. 43. 



Blinding of birds, v. 414, 



Blindness, iii. 53. 



Blindworm, ii. 466. 



Blite, iv. 295. 



Blood, iii, 65, 78; 

 of insects, ii, 3 

 V. 292 — remedies from', 

 276 — discharges of, perio- 

 dically, iii. 79 -which is 

 the thickest, 79— which 

 is the thinnest, 79— other 

 properties of it, 79 — 

 whether it is the prin- 

 ciple of life, 80— baths of, 

 155— spitting of, remedies 

 for, V. 438, 439. 



Bloodless fish, ii. 416. 



Blood-letting, v, 319: vi, 



■ 50. 



Blood-red shrub, v. 3t. 



Bloodstone, vi. 448, 4.50. 



Blossoming of flowers, iv. 

 336, 337— of trees, iii, 380 

 -384. 



Blossoms of plants, iv. 170, 

 171. 



Blue, staining the body, iv. 

 390. 



Blue-bell, iv. 328. 



Blushing, iii. 80. 



Boa Cserpent), ii. 262. 



V. 328— 

 —human 



Boa (disease), v. 24, 199. 



Boarfish, iii. 94. 



Boats, various kinds of, the 



invention of, ii. 234. 

 Boca, vi. 61. 



Bocchus, Cornelius, iii. 437. 

 Bodies that have the nature 

 of animal and vegetable 

 combined, ii. 453. 

 Bodincus, i. 246. 

 Body, gigantic, discovered, 

 ii. 156 — remarkable pro- 

 perties of the, 158, 159— 

 parts to which certain 

 religious ideas are at- 

 tached, iii. 88 — maladies 

 which attack the whole 

 of the, V. 194 — evils which 

 affect the whole of the, 

 448, 449. 

 Boebeis, i. 295. 

 Boedas, vi. 176, 179. 

 Bceotia, described, i. 290. 

 Boethus, vi. 139, 184. 

 Boeus, ii. 555. 

 Boii, i. 243, 356. 

 Boils, remedies for, v. 200, 



357, 457. 

 Bokhara, ii. 31. 

 Boleti, iv. 429. 

 Bolites, iv. 381. 

 Bologna, i. 241. 

 Bologna stone, vi. 447. 

 Bolos, vi. 444. 

 Bolters, iv. 41. 

 Bo/ui^uKca, V. 273. 

 Bombylis, iii. 25. 

 Bombyx of Assyria, iii. 25, 

 liona Dea, rites of, ii. 536, 

 Bonasus, li. 264. 

 Bones, iii. 77 — gigantic, ii. 

 156— solid, 159, 160— of 

 the head, iii. 47 — broken, 

 remedies for, v. 354, 460, 

 461. 

 Bonomi's " Nineveh," re- 

 ferred to, V.47. 

 Bononia, i. 241. 

 Bonus Eventus, vi. 181. 

 Books, of Numa, discovered, 

 iii. 192— burnt, 192— sea- 

 soning of, V. 8. 

 Boomerang, ii. 253— possi- 

 ble allusion to, v. 47. 

 Bootskopf, ii. 364, 365. 

 Borage, v. 109— still used 

 in certain beverages, v. 

 109. 

 Boreas, i. 74. 

 Borion, i, 394. 

 Borysthenes, i. 331. 

 Bosporus, i. 306, 326, 495 ; 



ii. 2. 

 Bostock, Dr. i. vi (in the 



Preface); vi. 68, 147. 

 Bostrychilis, vi. 444, 461, 



Botany, introduction of, ii. 



224. 

 Botryitis, vi. 444. 

 Botrys, iii. 214 ; v. 106, 107, 



226, 236. 

 Bong, i. 332. 

 Boulogne, i. 350. 

 Bovillae, i. 199. 

 Bowels, remedies for pains 

 in the, v. 181 — remedies 

 for maladies in the, v. 

 346, 347, 348, 442, 443 ; 

 vi. 39. 

 Bowstrings, made of the 

 genitals of the camel, iii. 

 92. 

 Box-tree, iii. 368, 369, 390, 



391. 

 Box-wood, ii. 4. 

 Brabyla, v. 236. 

 Brace (malting wheat), iv. 



24. 

 Brachmanse, ii. 42. 

 Braga, i. 164. 



Brahma, temple of, vi. 406. 

 Brahmins, ii. 42, 44. 

 Brain, of man, iii. 47— and 

 other animals, iii. 48 — 

 palpitation of the, 48. 

 Bramble, iii. 411 ; v. 47- 



50— of Ida, iii. 412. 

 Bramble-frog, ii, 298; iii. 

 98 ; iv, 102 ; v. 128, 303 ; 

 vi. 22. 

 Bran, iv. 440. 

 Branch, propagation from 



the, iii. 485, 486. 

 Branches of trees, iii. 391, 



Branchidse, oracle of, i. 466. 



Brand's " Popular Antiqui- 

 ties " quoted, ii. 127 ; v. 

 282, 283, 389. 



Brand-marks, how treated, 

 V. 150. 



Brass, a description of, vi. 

 147-168. 



Brathy, v. 41. 



Bratus, iii. 135. 



Brawn, ii. 345. 



Bread, iv. 26, 28, 29, 33, 447 

 — methods of making, 39, 

 40— various kinds of, 39, 

 40. 



Bream, ii. 389. 



Breast, iii. 74 — modes of 

 preserving tlie, v. 464,465. 



Breath, iii. 97— tainted, 97 

 — bad, remedies for, 97 ; 

 v. 150— of animals, differ- 

 ent effects of, iii. 97. 



Breeches, i. 173, 174. 



Bregma, iii. 112. 



Brenta, i. 246. 



Brick, used in making 

 bread, iv. 37. 



