BOOK I 



houseleek or eye or little finger, 31 drugs ; lesser 

 live-for-ever or erithales or trithales or erysithales, 

 our aye-green or stonecrop, 32 drugs ; wild purslane, 

 our decoy-bird 32. (cvi-x) Erigeron or pappos or 

 groundsel, our old-man, 8 ; ephemeron 2 ; Venus's- 

 lip 1, frog-weed, our ranunculus or buttercup, 4 

 kinds, 14 drugs ; mouth-heal, 2 kinds. Total 1292 

 drugs, investigations and observations. 



Authorities : Gaius Valgius, Pompeius Lenaeus, 

 Sextius Niger's Greek writings, JuUus Bassus's ditto, 

 Antonius Castor, Cornehus Celsus, Fabianus. Foreign 

 authorities : Theophrastus, Apollodorus, Demo- 

 critus, Juba, Oi*pheus, Pythagoras, Mago, Menander's 

 Things serviceable for life, Nicander, Homer, Hesiod, 

 Musaeus, Sophocles, Xanthus, Anaxilaus. Medical 

 writers : Mnesitheus, CaUimachus, Phanias the 

 natural scientist, Timaristus, Simus, Hippocrates, 

 Chrysippus, Diocles, Ophion, Herachdes, Hicesius, 

 Dionysius, Apollodorus of Citium, Apollodorus of 

 Tarentum, Praxagoras, PUstonicus, Medius, Dieuches, 

 Cleophantus, PhiUstion, Asclepias, Crateuas, Petro- 

 nius Diodotus, lollas, Erasistratus, Diagoras, Andreas, 

 Mnesides, Epicharmus, Damion, Sosimenes, 

 Tlepolemus, Metrodorus, Solon, Lycus, Olympias 

 of Thebes, PhiUnus, Petrichus, Miccio, Glaucias, 

 Xenocrates, 



Book XXVI. Contents : the remaining drugs by 

 classes. (i) New diseases. (ii-vi) Ringworm — when 

 first occurring in Italy ; carbuncle ditto ; elephantiasis 

 ditto ; coUc ditto. (vii-ix) The new medicine ; the 

 physician Asclepias ; reason for alteration of the old 

 medicine ; refutation of Magi. (x-xix) Lichen, 2 kinds, 

 6 drugs, Proserpinaca 1, ox-eye daisy 2, condurdum 



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