BOOK I 



2 drugs, tarragon 1, water-clock 5. (vii-ix) The 

 greatest pain. Discoverers of famous plants. Moly 



3, shooting star 1, peony or pentorobus or glycysides 

 1, varieties of all-heal — Asclepion 2, HeracUon 3, 

 Chironion 4, Centaurion or Pharnacion 3, iron-wort 

 HeracUon 4, hyoscyamos or Apollo-plant or henbane, 

 2 kinds, 3 drugs ; hnozostis or maiden-hair or grass of 

 Hermes or grass of Mercury, 2 kinds, 22 drugs; 

 Achilles star-wort or all-heal of Heracles, our 

 milfoil or king's-broom, 6 kinds, 3 drugs. (xx-xxix) 

 Teucer's grass or hermione or spleenwort 2 ; Melam- 

 podium or hellebore, our verati'um 3 kinds, method 

 of gathering, method of testing; drugs from black 

 hellebore 24, how taken ; ditto with white hellebore ; 

 drugs from the latter 23 ; to what patients not to be 

 given : observations in regard to each kind 88. 

 Grass of Mithridates 2, scordotis or water-germander 



4, Polemonia or Philetaeria or thousand-virtues 6, 

 Eupatoria 1. (xxx-xhi) Centaury or grass of Chiron 

 20, lesser centaury or hbadion, our earth-gall (fumi- 

 tory) 22, triorcliis centaury 2, Clymenos 2, gentian 13, 

 Lysimachia 8, Artemisia or maiden-herb or mag- 

 wort or ambrosia 5, water-hly or rod of Heracles or 

 rhopalon or mallos, 2 kinds, 14 drugs ; Euphorbia 2 

 kinds, 4 drugs ; plantain 2 kinds, 46 drugs ; bugloss 

 3; hound's-tongue 3; ox-eye or cachla 1. (xliii-ix) 

 Plants discovered by various races : Scythian grass 

 3, mare's-grass 3, styptic plant 2, cestros or psycho- 

 trophon, our Vettonica or betony, 48 ; Cantabrian 

 bindweed 2, lung-wort 1, candy-tuft 7. (1-liii) 

 Plants found from animals : swallow-wort 6, dog's- 

 grass 1, dittany 8, sham-dittany or horehound. 



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