Chapter I: Book XXXII: Remedies Derived From Aquatic Animals

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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

18. The sea-frog: six remedies. The river-frog: fifty-two
remedies. The bramble-frog: one remedy. Thirty-two
observations on these animals 21

19. The enhydris: six remedies. The river-crab: fourteen remedies.
The sea-crab: seven remedies. The river-snail:
seven remedies. The coracinus: four remedies. The sea-pig:
two remedies 23

20. The sea-calf: ten remedies. The muræna: one remedy. The
hippocampus: nine remedies. The sea-urchin: eleven
remedies 24

21. The various kinds of oysters: fifty-eight remedies and
observations. Purples: nine remedies 25

22. Sea-weed: two remedies 28

23. Remedies for alopecy, change of colour in the hair, and
ulcerations of the head. The sea-mouse: two remedies.
The sea-scorpion: twelve remedies. The leech: seven
remedies. The murex: thirteen remedies. The conchylium:
five remedies 29

24. Remedies for diseases of the eyes and eyelids. Two remedies
derived from the fat of fishes. The callionymus: three
remedies. The gall of the coracinus: one remedy. The
sæpia: twenty-four remedies. Ichthyocolla: five
remedies _ib._

25. Remedies for diseases of the ears. The batia: one remedy.
The bacchus or myxon: two remedies. The sea-louse: two
remedies 33

26. Remedies for tooth-ache. The dog-fish: four remedies.
Whale’s flesh 34

27. Remedies for lichens, and for spots upon the face. The
dolphin: nine remedies. Coluthia or coryphia: three
remedies. Halcyoneum: seven remedies. The tunny: five
remedies 35

28. Remedies for scrofula, imposthumes of the parotid glands,
quinzy, and diseases of the fauces. The mæna; thirteen
remedies. The sea-scolopendra: two remedies. The saurus:
one remedy. Shell-fish: one remedy. The silurus: fifteen
remedies 37

29. Remedies for cough and diseases of the chest 38

30. Remedies for pains in the liver and side. The elongated
conch: six remedies. The tethea: five remedies 39

31. Remedies for diseases of the bowels. Sea-wort: one remedy
The myax: twenty-five remedies. The mitulus: eight
remedies. Pelorides: one remedy. Seriphum: two remedies.
The erythinus: two remedies _ib._

32. Remedies for diseases of the spleen, for urinary calculi,
and for affections of the bladder. The sole: one remedy.
The turbot: one remedy. The blendius: one remedy. The
sea-nettle; seven remedies. The pulmo marinus: six
remedies. Onyches: four remedies 42

33. Remedies for intestinal hernia, and for diseases of the
rectum. The water-snake: one remedy. The hydrus: one
remedy. The mullet: one remedy. The pelamis: three
remedies 44

34. Remedies for inflamed tumours, and for diseases of the
generative organs. The sciæna: one remedy. The perch:
four remedies. The squatina: three remedies. The smaris:
three remedies _ib._

35. Remedies for incontinence of urine. The ophidion: one
remedy 46

36. Remedies for gout, and for pains in the feet. The beaver:
four remedies. Bryon: one remedy _ib._

37. Remedies for epilepsy 47

38. Remedies for fevers. The fish called asellus: one remedy.
The phagrus: one remedy _ib._

39. Remedies for lethargy, cachexy, and dropsy 49

40. Remedies for burns and for erysipelas _ib._

41. Remedies for diseases of the sinews 50

42. Methods of arresting hæmorrhage and of letting blood. The
polyp: one remedy _ib._

43. Methods of extracting foreign bodies from the flesh 51

44. Remedies for ulcers, carcinomata, and carbuncle 52

45. Remedies for warts, and for malformed nails. The glanis:
one remedy 53

46. Remedies for female diseases. The glauciscus: one
remedy _ib._

47. Methods of removing superfluous hair. Depilatories 55

48. Remedies for the diseases of infants 56

49. Methods of preventing intoxication. The fish called rubellio:
one remedy. The eel: one remedy. The grape-fish: one
remedy 57

50. Antaphrodisiacs and aphrodisiacs. The hippopotamus: one
remedy. The crocodile: one remedy _ib._

51. Remedies for the diseases of animals _ib._

52. Other aquatic productions. Adarca or calamochnos: three
remedies. Reeds: eight remedies. The ink of the sæpia 58

53. The names of all the animals that exist in the sea, one
hundred and seventy-six in number 59

54. Additional names of fishes found in the poem of Ovid 65