BOOK V.

PREFACE, 186

CHAP. I. Medicines for stopping blood, 187

II. Agglutinants and restringents, 187

III. Medicines for promoting a suppuration, 188

IV. Medicines for opening wounds, 188

V. Cleansers, 188

VI. Corroding medicines, 189

VII. Eating medicines, 189

VIII. Caustics, 190

IX. Medicines for forming crusts upon ulcers, 190

X. Resolvents for crusts, 190

XI. Discutients, 191

XII. Evacuating and drawing medicines, 191

XIII. Lenients, 191

XIV. Incarning medicines, 192

XV. Emollients, 192

XVI. Cleansers of the skin, 192

XVII. Of the mixture of simples, and the proportion of the weights, 193

XVIII. Of malagmas, in all thirty-six recited, 194

XIX. Of plaisters, in all twenty-nine recited, 201

XX. Of troches, in all seven recited, 207

XXI. Of pessaries, in all seven recited, 208

XXII. Medicines, used either in a dry form, or mixed with liquids, 210

XXIII. Of antidotes, and their use, 212

XXIV. Of acopa, 213

XXV. Of catapotia, 214

XXVI. Of five different kinds of disorders incident to the body; and of the nature, symptoms, and cure of wounds, 217

Bad consequences from wounds, 230

Cure of an old ulcer, 231

Cure of an erysipelas, 232

Cure of a gangrene, 232

XXVII. Of wounds caused by bites, poisons taken internally, and burns, 235

XXVIII. Of external disorders proceeding from internal causes, and their cure, 240

Of a carbuncle, 241

Of a cancer, 242

Of a therioma, 244

Of the ignis sacer, 245

Of the chironian ulcer, 246

Of ulcers occasioned by cold, 247

Of the scrophula, 247

Of a furuncle, 248

Of phymata, 248

Of a phygethlon, 248

Of abscesses, 248

Of fistulas, 250

Of the cerion ulcer, 253

Of the acrochordon, &c. 254

Of pustules, 256

Of the scabies, 257

Of the impetigo, 258

Of the papula, 258

Of the vitiligo, 259