XVI CONTENTS. 



Chap. Page 



107. The stcechas : tliree remedies .. .. 266 



108. The solanum, by the Greeks called strychnon : two remedial 



properties 



109. Smyrnion : thirty-two remedies. Sinon: two remedies 



110. Teltphion : four remedies 



111. The tiichomanes : five remedies . . 



112. The tlialictrum : one remedy .. 



113. Thlaspi and Persicon napy : four remedies 



114. The trachinia ; one property 



115. The tragonis or tragion : four remedies. 



116. The tragos or scorpion : four remedies. . 



117. The tragopogon or come 



118. The ages of plants 



119. How the greatest efficacy in plants may be ensured . . 



120. Maladies peculiar to various nations 



BOOK XXVIII. 



KEMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES. 



1. Introduction 



2. Remedies derived from man 



3. "Whether words are possessed of any healing efficacy . . 



4. That prodigies and portents may be confirmed, or made of no 



efi'ect . . 



5. A description of various usages . . 



6. Two hundred and twenty-six observations on remedies derived 



from man. Eight remedies derived from children. 



7. Properties of the human spittle . . 



8. Remedies derived from the wax of the human ear 



9. Remedies derived from the human hair, teeth, &c. 



10. Remedies derived from the human blood, the sexual con- 



gress, &c. 



11. Remedies derived from the dead 



12. Various reveries and devices of the magicians 



13. Remedies derived from the human excretions 



14. Remedies depending upon the human will 



15. Remedies derived from sneezing 



16. Remedies derived from the sexual congress 



17. Various other remedies .. 



18. Remedies derived from the urine 



1 9. Indications of liealth derived from the urine 



20. Forty-one remedies derived from the female sex 

 *2l. Remedies derived from woman's milk . . 



22. Remedies derived from the spittle of females , 



23. Facts connected with the menstrual discharge. 



24. Remedies derived from foreign animals : the elephant, eight 



remedies .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 307 



