Xvi CONTENTS. 



CHAP. Page 



107. The stoechas : three remedies 266 



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



properties . . . . . . . . - ; *^ 



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



110. Telephion: four remedies 267 



111. The trichomanes: five remedies 



112. The thalictrum : one remedy ib. 



113. Thlaspi and Persicon napy : four remedies 



114. The trachinia : one property .. .. .. 269 



115. The tragonis or tragion : four remedies. ib. 



116. The tragos or scorpion : four remedies 270 



117. The tragopogon or come .. ib. 



118. The ages of plants ** 



119. How the greatest efficacy in plants may be ensured .. .. 271 



120. Maladies peculiar to various nations # 



BOOK XXVIII. 



KEMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES. 



1. Introduction . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . 275 



"~ 2. Remedies derived from man .. .. .. .. ..276 



3. Whether words are possessed of any healing efficacy . . . . 278 



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



effect 280 



6, A description of various usages .. .. .. .. .. -283 



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



from man. Eight remedies derived from children. . . . 286 



7. Properties of the human spittle . . . . 288 



8. Remedies derived from the wax of the human ear . . . . 291 



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



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



gress, &c 292 



11. Remedies derived from the dead ib. 



12. Various reveries and devices of the magicians .. .. .. 293 



13. Remedies derived from the human excretions . . .. . . 294 



1 4. Remedies depending upon the human will 295 



15. Remedies derived from sneezing .. .. .. .. 297 



16. Remedies derived from the sexual congress . . . . . . ib. 



17. Various other remedies 298 



18. Remedies derived from the urine 299 



19. Indications of health derived from the urine . . . . . . 301 



20. Forty-one remedies derived from the female sex . . . . ib. 



21. Remedies derived from woman's milk .. .. .. .. 302 



22. Remedies derived from the spittle of females . . . . . . 304 



23. Facts connected with the menstrual discharge. . . . ib. 



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



remedies 307 



