The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)

BOOK XXIV.. The Remedies Derived Prom the Forest Trees.

THE REMEDIES DERIVED PROM THE FOREST TREES.

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1. The antipathies and sympathies which exist among trees and plants 1

2. The lotus of Italy: six remedies 3

3. Acorns: thirteen remedies 4

4. The kermes-berry of the holm-oak: three remedies ib.

5. Gall-nuts: twenty-three remedies 5

6. Mistletoe: eleven remedies ib.

7. The excrescences which grow on the robur: one remedy. The cerrus: eight remedies 6

8. The cork-tree: two remedies 7

9. The beech: four remedies ib.

10. The cypress: twenty-three remedies ib.

11. The cedar: thirteen remedies 8

12. Cedrides: ten remedies 9

13. Galbanum: twenty-three remedies 10

14. Hammoniacum: twenty-four remedies 11

15. Storax: ten remedies ib.

16. Spondylium: seventeen remedies 12

17. Sphagnos, sphacos, or bryon: five remedies ib.

18. The terebinth: six remedies ib.

19. The pitch-tree and the larch: eight remedies 13

20. The chamæpitys: ten remedies ib.

21. The pityusa: six remedies 14

22. Resins: twenty-two remedies 15

23. Pitch: twenty-three remedies 17

24. Pisselæon and palimpissa: sixteen remedies 18

25. Pissasphaltos: two remedies ib.

26. Zopissa: one remedy 19

27. The torch-tree: one remedy ib.

28. The lentisk: twenty-two remedies ib.

29. The plane-tree: twenty-five remedies 20

30. The ash: five remedies 21

31. The maple: one remedy ib.

32. The poplar: eight remedies ib.

33. The elm: sixteen remedies 22

34. The linden-tree: five remedies 23

35. The elder: fifteen remedies ib.

36. The juniper: twenty-one remedies 24

37. The willow: fourteen remedies. The willow of Ameria: one remedy 25

38. The vitex: thirty-three remedies 26

39. The erica: one remedy 28

40. The broom: five remedies ib.

41. The myrica, otherwise called the tamarica, or tamarix: three remedies 29

42. The brya: twenty-nine remedies 30

43. The blood-red shrub: one remedy 31

44. The siler: three remedies ib.

45. The privet: eight remedies 32

46. The alder: one remedy ib.

47. The several varieties of the ivy: thirty-nine remedies ib.

48. The cisthos: five remedies 34

49. The cissos erythranos: two remedies. The chamæcissos: two remedies. The smilax: three remedies. The clematis: eighteen remedies ib.

50. The reed: nineteen remedies 35

51. The papyrus, and the paper made from it: three remedies 36

52. The ebony: five remedies 37

53. The rhododendron: one remedy ib.

54. The rhus or sumach-tree; two varieties of it: eight remedies. Stomatice 38

55. Rhus erythros: nine remedies ib.

56. The erythrodanus: eleven remedies ib.

57. The alysson: two remedies 39

58. The radicula or struthion: thirteen remedies. The apocynum: two observations upon it ib.

59. Rosemary: eighteen remedies 40

60. The seed called cachrys. 41

61. The herb savin: seven remedies ib.

62. Selago: two remedies ib.

63. Samolus: two remedies 42

64. Gum: eleven remedies ib.

65. The Egyptian or Arabian thorn: four remedies 43

66. The white thorn: two remedies. The acanthion: one remedy ib.

67. Gum acacia: eighteen remedies ib.

68. Aspalathos: one remedy 45

69. The erysisceptrum, adipsatheon, or diaxylon: eight remedies ib.

70. The thorn called appendix: two remedies. The pyracantha: one remedy 46

71. The paliurus: ten remedies ib.

72. The agrifolia. The aquifolia: one remedy. The yew: one property belonging to it ib.

73. The bramble: fifty-one remedies 47

74. The cynosbatos: three remedies 48

75. The Idæan bramble 50

76. The rhamnos; two varieties of it: five remedies ib.

77. Lycium: eighteen remedies 51

78. Sarcocolla: two remedies 52

79. Oporice: two remedies ib.

80. The trixago, chamædrys, chamædrops, or teucria: sixteen remedies ib.

81. The chamædaphne: five remedies 53

82. The chamelæa: six remedies ib.

83. The chamæsyce: eight remedies 54

84. The chamæcissos: one remedy ib.

85. The chamæleuce, farfarum, or farfugium: one remedy ib.

86. The chamæpeuce: five remedies. The chamæcyparissos: two remedies. The ampeloprason: six remedies. The stachys: one remedy 55

87. The clinopodion, cleonicion, zopyron, or ocimoïdes: three remedies ib.

88. The clematis centunculus: three remedies 56

89. The clematis echites, or lagine ib.

90. The Egyptian clematis, daphnoïdes, or polygonoïdes: two remedies 57

91. Different opinions on dracontium ib.

92. The aron: thirteen remedies 58

93. The dracunculus: two remedies 60

94. The arisaros: three remedies ib.

95. The millefolium or myriophyllon: seven remedies 61

96. The pseudobunion: four remedies ib.

97. The myrrhis, myriza, or myrrha: seven remedies ib.

98. The onobrychis: three remedies 62

99. Coracesta and callicia ib.

100. The minsas or corinthia: one remedy 63

101. The aproxis: six remedies ib.

102. The aglaophotis or marmaritis. The achæmenis or hippophobas. The theobrotion or semnion. The adamantis. The arianis. The therionarca. The ætheopis or merois. The ophiusa. The thalassegle or potamaugis. The theangelis. The gelotophyllis. The hestiatoris or protomedia. The casignetes or dionysonymphas. The helianthes or heliocallis. The hermesias. The æschynomene. The crocis. The œnotheris. The anacampseros 64

103. The eriphia 67

104. The wool plant: one remedy. The lactoris: one remedy. The militaris: one remedy 68

105. The stratiotes: five remedies ib.

106. A plant growing on the head of a statue: one remedy ib.

107. A plant growing on the banks of a river: one remedy 69

108. The herb called lingua: one remedy ib.

109. Plants that take root in a sieve: one remedy ib.

110. Plants growing upon dunghills: one remedy ib.

111. Plants that have been moistened with the urine of a dog: one remedy ib.

112. The rodarum: three remedies ib.

113. The plant called impia: two remedies 70

114. The plant called Venus’ comb: one remedy ib.

115. The exedum. The plant called notia: two remedies 71

116. The philanthropos: one remedy. The lappa canaria: two remedies ib.

117. Tordylon or syreon: three remedies ib.

118. Gramen: seventeen remedies 72

119. Dactylos: five remedies 73

120. Fenugreek or silicia: thirty-one remedies 74

BOOK XXV.. The Natural History of the Wild Plants.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WILD PLANTS.

1. When the wild plants were first brought into use 77

2. The Latin authors who have written upon these plants 78

3. At what period the Romans acquired some knowledge of this subject ib.

4. Greek authors who have delineated the plants in colours 80

5. The first Greek authors who wrote upon plants ib.

6. Why a few of the plants only have been used medicinally. Plants, the medicinal properties of which have been miraculously discovered. The cynorrhodos: two remedies. The plant called dracunculus: one remedy. The britannica: five remedies 83

7. What diseases are attended with the greatest pain. Names of persons who have discovered famous plants 86

8. Moly: three remedies 87

9. The dodecatheos: one remedy 88

10. The pæonia, pentorobus, or glycyside: one remedy ib.

11. The panaces asclepion: two remedies 89

12. The panaces heracleon: three remedies 90

13. The panaces chironion: four remedies ib.

14. The panaces centaurion or pharnacion: three remedies ib.

15. The heracleon siderion: four remedies 91

16. The ampelos chironia: one remedy ib.

17. Hyoscyamos, known also as the apollinaris or altercum; five varieties of it: three remedies ib.

18. Linoxostis, parthenion, hermupoa, or mercurialis: two varieties of it: twenty-two remedies 92

19. The achilleos, sideritis, panaces heracleon, millefolium, or scopæ regiæ; six varieties of it: three remedies 94

20. The teucrion, hemionion, or splenion: two remedies 95

21. Melampodium, hellebore, or veratrum; three varieties of it. The way in which it is gathered, and how the quality of it is tested 96

22. Twenty-four remedies derived from black hellebore. How it should be taken 98

23. Twenty-three remedies derived from white hellebore 99

24. Eighty-eight observations upon the two kinds of hellebore 100

25. To what persons hellebore should never be administered 101

26. The mithridatia 102

27. The scordotis or scordion: four remedies ib.

28. The polemonia, philetæria, or chiliodynamus: six remedies ib.

29. The eupatoria: one remedy 103

30. Centaurion or chironion: twenty remedies ib.

31. The centaurion lepton, or libadion, known also as fel terræ: twenty-two remedies 104

32. The centauris triorchis: two remedies ib.

33. Clymenus: two remedies 105

34. Gentian: thirteen remedies ib.

35. The lysimachia: eight remedies 106

36. Artemisia, parthenis, botrys, or ambrosia: five remedies ib.

37. Nymphæa, heracleon, rhopalon, or madon; two varieties of it: four remedies 107

38. Two varieties of euphorbia: four remedies. The chamelæa ib.

39. Two varieties of the plantago: forty-six remedies 109

40. Buglossos; three remedies ib.

41. Cynoglossos: three remedies 110

42. The buphthalmos or cachla: one remedy ib.

43. Plants which have been discovered by certain nations. The scythice: one remedy ib.

44. The hippace: three remedies 111

45. The ischæmon: two remedies ib.

46. The cestros, psychotrophon, vettonica, or serratula: forty-eight remedies ib.

47. The cantabrica: two remedies 112

48. Consiligo: one remedy ib.

49. The iberis: seven remedies 113

50. Plants which have been discovered by certain animals. Chelidonia: six remedies 114

51. The dog-plant: one remedy ib.

52. The elaphoboscon 115

53. Dictamnon; eight remedies. Pseudodictamnon or chondris. In what places the most powerful plants are found. How that milk is drunk in Arcadia for the beneficial effects of the plants upon which the cattle feed ib.

54. The aristolochia, clematitis, cretica, plistolochia, lochia polyrrhizos, or apple of the earth: twenty-two remedies 116

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