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But as we are now about to leave the garden plants, we will take this opportunity of describing a very famous preparation
extracted from them as an antidote against the stings of all kinds of venomous animals: it is inscribed in verse [Note] upon a stone in the Temple of Æsculapius at Cos.
Take two denarii of wild thyme, and the same quantity of opopanax and meum respectively; one denarius of trefoil seed; and of aniseed, fennel-seed, ammi, and parsley, six denarii respectively, with twelve denarii of meal of fitches. Beat up these ingredients together, and pass them through a sieve; after which they must be kneaded with the best wine that can be had, and then made into lozenges of one victoriatus [Note] each: one of these is to be given to the patient, steeped in three cyathi of wine. King Antiochus [Note] the Great, it is said, employed this theriaca [Note] against all kinds of venomous animals, the asp excepted.
SUMMARY.—Remarkable facts, narratives, and observations, one thousand, five hundred, and six.
ROMAN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Cato [Note] the Censor, M. Varro, [Note] Pompeius Linnæus, [Note] C. Valgius, [Note] Hyginus, [Note] Sextius Niger [Note]
who wrote in Greek, Julius Bassus [Note] who wrote in Greek, Celsus, [Note] Antonius Castor. [Note]
FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Democritus, [Note] Theophrastus, [Note] Orpheus, [Note] Monander [Note] who wrote the "Biochresta," Pythagoras, [Note] Nicander. [Note]
MEDICAL AUTHORS QUOTED.—Chrysippus, [Note] Diocles, [Note] Ophelion, [Note] Heraclides, [Note] Hicesius, [Note] Dionysius, [Note] Apollodorus [Note] of Citium, Apollodorus [Note] of Tarentum, Praxagoras, [Note] Plistoni-
cus, [Note] Medius, [Note] Dieuches, [Note] Cleophantus, [Note] Philistion, [Note] Asclepiades, [Note] Crateuas, [Note] Petronius Diodotus, [Note] lollas, [Note] Erasistratus, [Note] Diagoras, [Note] Andreas, [Note] Mnesides, [Note] Epicharmus, [Note] Damion, [Note] Dalion, [Note] Sosimenes, [Note] Tlepolemus, [Note] Metrodo-
rus, [Note] Solo, [Note] Lycus, [Note] Olympias [Note] of Thebes, Philinus, [Note] Petrichus, [Note] Micton, [Note] Glaucias, [Note] Xenocrates. [Note]
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