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weed or orios) 4 kinds, 40 drugs; succory 12, peplis 

 or syce or meconion or foam-poppy 3, honeysuckle 5, 

 hatchet-vetch 1, milkwort 1, tragacanth or frog-cup 

 or tendon-plant 4 ; anthericum or spider-root or 

 whitethorn 4; groundsel 1; phyllon 1. (ci-cx) 

 Phellandi'ion 2, canary-grass 2, many-root 5, Proser- 

 pinaca 5, rhecoma 36, reseda 2, French lavender 



3, nightshade, Greek strychnon, 2 ; common 

 alexanders 32, sinon 2, purslane 4. (cxi-cxvii) Mad- 

 locks 5, meadow-rue 1, thlaspi or Persian mustard 



4, herb of Trachis 1, tragonis or goatwort 1, goat-grass 

 or scorpion-grass 4, goat's-beard or come 1. (cxviii- 

 cxx) Length of life of herbs ; means of increasing 

 the potency of each kind. Different national 

 maladies. Total, 602 drugs, investigations and 

 observations. 



Authorities : Gaius Valgius, Pompeius Lenaeus, 

 Greek works of Sextius Niger, ditto of Julius Bassus, 

 Antonius Castor, Cornelius Celsus. Foreign authori- 

 ties : Theophrastus, Apollodorus, Democritus, Aristo- 

 giton, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Mago, Menander's 

 Things sei'viceable Jbr life, Nicander. Medical 

 writers : Mnesitheus, Callimachus, Timaristus, Simus, 

 Hippocrates, Chrysippus, Diocles, Ophion, Hera- 

 clides, Hicesius, Dionysius, Apollodorus of Citium, 

 Apollodorus of Tarentum, Praxagoras, Plistonicus, 

 Medius, Dieuches, Cleophantus, Philistion, Ascle- 

 piades, Crateuas, Petronius Diodotus, lollas, Erasis- 

 tratus, Diagoras, Andreas, Mnesides, Epicharmus, 

 Damion, Sosimenes, Tlepolemus, Metrodorus, Solon, 

 Lycus, Olympias of Thebes, PhiUnus, Petrichus, 

 Miccio, Glaucia, Xenocrates. 



Book XXVTH. Contents : drugs obtained frora 

 animals. (iii) Whether there is any healing power 



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