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66. Eemedies for fevers .. .. 354 
67. Remedies for melancholy, lethargy, and phthisis . . . . 35o 
68. Eemedies for dropsy . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 
69. Remedies for erysipelas, and for purulent eruptions . . . . 357 
70. Remedies for sprains, indurations, and boils . . . . . . ib. 
71. Remedies for burns. The method of testing bull-glue; seven 
remedies derived from it . . . . . . . . ib. 
72. Remedies for affections of the sinews and for contusions . . 358 
73. Remedies for haemorrhage . . . . . . . . . . ib. 
74. Remedies for ulcers and carcinomatous sores . . . , . , 359 
75. Remedies for the itch . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 
76. Methods of extracting foreign substances which adhere to the 
body, and of restoring scars to their natural colour . . . . ib. 
77. Remedies for female diseases . . . . . . . . . . ib. ' 
78. Remedies for the diseases of infants . . . . . . . . 364 
79. Provocatives of sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 
80. Stimulants for the sexual passions . . . . . . ib. 
81. Remarkable facts relative to animals .. 366 
BOOK XXIX. 
EEMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES. 
1. The origin of the medical art .. .. 370 
2. Particulars relative to Hippocrates. Date of the origin of clinical 
practice and of that of latraleptics . . . . . . . . 371 
3 . Particulars relative to Chrysippus and Erasistratus . . . . ib. 
4. The Empiric branch of medicine . . . . . . . . . . 372 
5. Particulars relative to Herophilus and other celebrated physicians. 
The various changes that have been made in the system of 
medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ib. 
6. Who first practised as a physician at Rome, and at what period 375 
7. The opinions entertained by the Romans on the ancient physicians ib. 
8. Evils attendant upon the practice of medicine . , . . . . 376 
9. Thirty-five remedies derived from wool . . . . . . . . 381 
10. Thirty-two remedies derived from wool-grease .. 383 
11. Twenty-two remedies derived from eggs .. 385 
12. Serpents' eggs 388 
13. The method of preparing commagenum. Four remedies derived 
from it 390 
14. Remedies derived from the dog .. .. .. .. 391 
15. Remedies classified according to the difi'erent maladies. Reme- 
dies for injuries inflicted by serpents. Remedies derived from 
mice 392 
16. Remedies derived from the weasel ., .. ib. 
17. Remedies derived from bugs .. .. ib. 
18. Particulars relative to the asp .. .. 394 
19. Remedies derived from the basilisk .. .. ib. 
