BOOK I 



obtained from tliese ; silpbium 7 ; assafoetida 

 plant 39. (l-lv) Bee-glue 5, honey A^B, liydromel 18 ; 

 reason for influence of diet on chAracter ; mead 6 ; 

 honey-must, 3; wax, 8. (Ivi) AVarning against 

 doctors' mixtures. (Ivii-lxxvi). Drugs from 

 various grains : common wheat 1, wheat 1, chaff 2, 

 emmer 1, bran 1, arinca, rye-water 2 ; corre- 

 sponding varieties of floxir ; 29 drugs ; pearl- 

 barley 8 ; fine flour, pulse 1, paper flour ] ; alica 6 ; 

 millet 6 ; Italian millet 4 ; sesauie 7 ; near-sesame 3, 

 hellebore 3 ; barley 9, wildbarley (Greek' Phoenician 

 barley ') 1 ; pearl-barley 4 ; starch 8 ; oats 1 ; bread 

 21 : bean 16; lentil 17; marsh-bean 3; eleUsphacon 

 or fragrant moss (sage) 13 ; chick-pea and small chick- 

 pea 23 ; bitter vetch 20 ; lupine 35 ; winter-cress or 

 erysimum (Gallic ' vela ') 15 ; clary 6. (Ixxvii-lxxx) 

 Darnel 5, millet grass 1, oats 1, choke-weed or broom- 

 rape 1. (Ixxxi f.) Protection against maggots in 

 vegetables. Foam from beer. — Total 906 drugs, in- 

 vestigations and observations. 



Authorities as in preceding book, also Chrysermus, 

 Eratosthenes, Alcaeus. 



Book XXIII. Contents: drugs obtained from 

 cultivated trees : (ii-xxii) from vines 20 ; vine- 

 leaves 7; tendrils 7; juice of unripe grape 14; wild 

 vine 21 ; fresh grapes ; varieties of stored grapes, 

 11 drugs ; vine-shoots 1 ; grape-stones 6 ; grape- 

 skins 8; treacle-grape 4; dried grape or raisin 14; 

 wild raisin or staves-acre or taminia or phlegm-heal 

 12 ; claret-vine or wdld vine 12 ; sahcastrum wild 

 vine 12 ; white grape or ampelos leuke or staphyle 

 or white bryony or psilothrum or archezostis or 

 cedrostis or madon 31 ; black grape or bryony or 



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