The final volume of Pliny the Elder's encyclopedic Natural History in the Bohn translation. It gathers books on remedies drawn from aquatic animals, metals and minerals, and precious stones, closing with a general index. Listen for a wide-ranging Roman view of nature, medicine, and wondrous properties.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY. TRANSLATED, WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE LATE JOHN BOSTOCK, M.D., F.R.S., AND H. T. RILEY, EǪǟ., B.A., LATE SCHOLAR OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. VOL. VI. WITH GENERAL INDEX. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCLVII.
CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.
BOOK XXXII. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM AQUATIC ANIMALS. CƒĵǙ. Page 1. The power of Nature as manifested in antipathies. The echeneïs: two remedies 1 2. The torpedo: nine remedies 4 3. The sea-hare: five remedies ib. 4. Marvels of the Red Sea 5 5. The instincts of fishes 6 6. Marvellous properties belonging to certain fishes 8 7. Places where fish eat from the hand ib. 8. Places where fish recognize the human voice. Oracular responses given by fish ib. 9. Places where bitter fish are found, salt, or sweet 9 10. When sea-fish were first eaten by the people of Rome. The ordinance of King Numa as to fish 10 11. Coral: forty-three remedies and observations ib. 12. The antipathies and sympathies which exist between certain objects. The hatreds manifested by certain aquatic animals. The pastinaca: eight remedies. The galeos: fifteen remedies. The sur-mullet: fifteen remedies 12 13. Amphibious animals. Castoreum: sixty-six remedies and observations 13 14. The tortoise: sixty-six remedies and observations 15 15. Remedies derived from the aquatic animals, classified according to the respective diseases 18 16. Remedies for poisons, and for noxious spells. The dorade: four remedies. The sea-star: seven remedies 19 17. Remedies for the stings of serpents, for the bites of dogs, and for injuries indicted by venomous animals. The sea-dragon: three remedies. Twenty-five remedies derived from salted fish. The sarda: one remedy. Eleven remedies derived from cybium 20
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