BOOK I 



from these matevials, 3 for serpents, animals' bites, 

 for poisons, for the head, eyes, eyeUd sores, teeth, 

 tooth-powders, throat, scrofula, stomach, hver, 

 phlegm, testicles, bladder, stone, tumours, piles, 

 gout, remedy for bleeding, for vomiting blood, dis- 

 location, cases of insanity, of lethargy, of epilepsy, of 

 melancholy, of giddiness, ulcers, caustic and surgical 

 treatment of wounds, sprains, bruises, moles burns, 

 consumption, the breasts, diseases of women, car- 

 buncles, plague. FuU total : 434 facts, investigations 

 and observations. 



Authorities : Marcus Varro, Gaius Galba, Cincius, 

 Mucianus, CorneUus Nepos, Lucius Piso, Quintus 

 Tubero, Fabius VestaUs, Annius FetiaUs, Fabianus, 

 Seneca, Cato the Censor, Vitruvius. Foreign 

 authorities : Theophrastus, Pasiteles, King Juba, 

 Nicander, Sotacus, Sudines, Alexander the Leai-ned, 

 Apion PUstonicus, Duris, Herodotus, Euhemerus, 

 Aristagoras, Dionysius, Artemidorus, Butoridas, 

 Antisthenes, Demetrius, Demoteles, Lyceas. 



Book XXXVIL Contents : (i-x) Origin of gems : 

 the tyrant Polycrates's jewel; Pyrrhus's jewel; 

 the best engravers ; famous specimens of engraving ; 

 the first coUection of signet-rings at Rome ; jewels 

 carried in the triumph of Pompey the Great ; murrine 

 vases, date of first importation ; extravagance 

 connected with ; their nature ; nature of rock- 

 crystal, drug from it ; extravagance in use of rock 

 crystal. (xi-xx) Amber, erroneous statements about ; 

 kinds of amber, drugs from these ; tourmaUne, 2 drugs ; 

 diamond or anancite, 6 kinds of diamonds, 2 drugs; 

 emeralds, 12 kinds, their blemishes; the gem tanos; 

 malachite ; beryls, their 8 kinds, their blemishes. 

 (xxi-xxx) Opals, tlieir 7 kinds, their blemishes, tests 



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