BOOK I 



myrtle-berry wine 13, Prickly myrtle or ground- 

 myrtle or butcher's broom 6. Total 1418 drugs, 

 investigations and observations. 



Authorities : Gaius Valgius, Pompeius Lenaeus, 

 Sextius Niger's Greek writings, Julius Bassuss ditto, 

 Antonius Castor, Marcus Varro, CorneHus Celsus, 

 Fabianus. Foreign authorities : Theophrastus, 

 Deniocritus, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Mago, Menan- 

 der's Things serviceable for life, Nicander, Homer. 

 Hesiod, Musaeus, Sophocles, Anaxilaus. Medical 

 writers: Mnesitheus, CalHmachus, Phanias's Natural 

 Science, Timaristus, Simus, Hippocrates, Chrysippus, 

 Diocles, Ophion, Heraclides, Hicesius, Dionysius, 

 Apollodorus of Citium, Apollodorus of Tarentum. 

 Praxagoras, Plistonicus, Medius, Dieuches, Cleo- 

 phantes, PhiUstion, Asclepiades, Crateuas, Petronius 

 Diodotus, lollas, Erasistratus, Diagoras, Andreas. 

 Mnesides, Epichai*mus, Damion, DaHon, Sosimenes, 

 Tlepolemus, Metrodorus, Solon, Lycus, Olympias 

 of Thebes, PhiHnus, Petrichus, Miccio, Glaucias, 

 Xenocrates. 



Book XXIV. Contents : Drugs obtained from 

 forest trees: (ii-ix) Egyptian water-Hly 6, acorns 13, 

 holm-oak berry 3, oak-apple 23, mistletoe 11, acorns 

 of glandiferous trees 1, Tvu-key oak 8, cork 2, beech 4. 

 (x-xix) Cypress 23, cedar 13, cedar-berry 10, galbanum 

 23, gumtree 24, styrax gumtree 10, bear's-foot 17, 

 sphagnus or sphacus or moss 5, turpentine 6, pitch- 

 pine 8. (xx-xxix) Ground-pine 10, pityusa 6, resin 

 22, pitch 34, cedar-resin oil or twice-boiled pitch 16, 

 earth-pitch 2, wax-pitch 1, pitch-pine 1, mastic-tree 

 22, plane 25. (xxx-xxxix) Beech 5,maple l,poplar 8, 

 elm 16, Hme 5, elder 15, juniper 21, willow 14, 

 Axnerian apple 1, chaste-tree 33, heath 1. (xl-xlix) 



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