Herbal Remedies
Natural History Volume 6
Pliny the Elder · narrated by LibriVox volunteers
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The ancient world's encyclopedia continues. Pliny's sixth volume presses on through geography, peoples, and the natural wonders of the known world, written with the confidence of a Roman who believed everything could be catalogued. You will discover how antiquity mapped nature and its uses, a foundation stone under every later herbal and household book, offered as pure heritage listening. Strange, vivid, and often unintentionally funny. Continue the journey, or drop in here; the wonder needs no prerequisite.
Inside this audiobook
21 chapters
- 1Book 26, Chapters 1 to 21. New forms of disease; The nature of lichen; Carbuncle; Elephantiasis; Colic; The new system of medicine: Asclepiades the physician; Quinzy; Scrofula; The plant called belli31m
- 2Book 26, Chapters 22 to 48. Tripolium; The gromphaena; The malundrum; Chalcetum; Molemonium; Halus or cotonea; The chamaedrops; The stcechas; Remedies for diseases of the belly; The astragalus; Ladanu35m
- 3Book 26, Chapters 49 to 70. Remedies for calculi and diseases of the bladder; Crethmos; The anthyllion; Cepeea; Hypericon; The chrysanthemum; Remedies for diseases of the testes and of the fundamente;30m
- 4Book 26, Chapters 71 to 93. Remedies for fevers; Remedies for phrenitis, lethargy, and carbuncles; Remedies for dropsy; Remedies for erysipelas; Remedies for sprains; Remedies for jaundice; Remedies f39m
- 5Book 27, Chapters 1 to 23. Researches of the ancients upon this subject; Aconite; Ageraton; The aloe; Alcea; The alypon; Alsine; The androsaces; Ambrosia; The anonis or ononis; The anagyros or acopon;29m
- 6Book 27, Chapters 24 to 56. Alum; Red sea-weed; Absinthium or wormwood; Black leek; The calyx; The crocodileon; The chrysolachanum; The grain of Gnidos; The elatine; Two varieties of filix or fern; Ox28m
- 7Book 27, Chapters 57 to 92. Galeopsis; The glaux; Glaucion; The gallidraga; Holcus or aristis; The plant of Ida; The leontopetalon or pardalion; The lycapsos; The lithospermum; Stone moss; The limeum;31m
- 8Book 27, Chapters 93 to 120. The peplis; The periclymenos; The phalangitis; The phellandrion; The proserpinaca; The solanum; Smyrnion; Telephion; The trachinia; The tragos or scorpion; The ages of pla23m
- 9Book 28, Chapters 1 to 7. Introduction; Remedies derived from man; Whether words are possessed of any healing efficacy; That prodigies and portents may be confirmed, or made of no effect; A descriptio30m
- 10Book 28, Chapters 8 to 23. Remedies derived from the wax of the human ear; Remedies derived from the human hair, teeth, etc.; Remedies derived from the human blood, the sexual congress, etc; Remedies 38m
- 11Book 28, Chapters 24 to 33. Remedies derived from foreign animals: the elephant; Ten remedies derived from the lion; Ten remedies derived from the camel; Seventy- nine remedies derived from the hyaena46m
- 12Book 28, Chapters 34 to 45. Twelve remedies derived from cheese; Twenty remedies derived from butter; The various uses of fat, and observations upon it, fifty-two in number; Suet; Marrow; Gall; Blood;28m
- 13Book 28, Chapters 46 to 61. Remedies for diseases of the head; Remedies for affections of the eyes; Remedies.for diseases and affections of the ears; Remedies for tooth-ache; Remedies for diseases of 49m
- 14Book 28, Chapters 62 to 81. Remedies for gout and for diseases of the feet; Remedies for epilepsy; Remedies for jaundice; Remedies for broken bonés; Remedies for fevers; Remedies for melancholy, let46m
- 15Book 29, Chapters 1 to 10. The origin of the medical art; Particulars relative to Hippocrates. Date of the origin of clinical practice; The Empiric branch of medicine; The various changes that have be31m
- 16Book 29, Chapters 11 to 25. Twenty-two remedies derived from eggs; Remedies derived from the dog; Remedies for injuries inflicted by serpentes; Remedies derived from mice; Remedies derived from the 33m
- 17Book 29, Chapters 26 to 39. Remedies derived from other birds; Remedies derived from various insects; Various counter-poisons; Remedies for the bite of the mad dog; Remedies for the other poisons; Rem54m
- 18Book 30, Chapters 1 to 12. The origin of the magic art; When and where the art of magic originated : by what persons it was practised; The Druids of the Gallic provinces; The various branches of magic35m
- 19Book 30, Chapters 13 to 25. Remedies for diseases of the shoulders; Remedies for pains in the viscera; Remedies for pains in the stomach; Remedies for pains in the liver, and for spitting of blood; Re35m
- 20Book 30, Chapters 26 to 41. Remedies for paralysis; Remedies for epilepsy; Remedies for jaundice; Remedies for phrenitis; Remedies for fevers; Remedies for dropsy; Remedies for erysipelas; Remedies fo34m
- 21Book 30, Chapters 42 to 53. Methods of extracting foreign substances from the body; Remedies for female complaints; Methods of facilitating delivery; Methods of preserving the breasts from injury; Var25m
