| SEVENTH BOOK. | ||
| SECT. | PAGE | |
| 1. | On the Temperaments of Substances as indicated by their Tastes | 1 |
| 2. | On the Order and Degrees of the Temperaments | 2 |
| On the powers of simple medicines | 6 | |
| 3. | On the Powers of Simples individually | 17 |
| Appendix to the Third Section—On the Substances introduced into the Materia Medica by the Arabians | 424 | |
| 4. | On Simple Purgative Medicines | 480 |
| On those things which evacuate bile | 481 | |
| Medicines which evacuate black bile | 483 | |
| Medicines which evacuate phlegm | ib. | |
| Medicines which evacuate water | 484 | |
| On cholagogues | 489 | |
| On melanogogues | 491 | |
| On phlegmagogues | 492 | |
| On hydragogues | ib. | |
| 5. | On Compound Purgatives | 493 |
| 6. | On the Management of those who take Purgative Medicines; and what is to be done to those who are not purged by a proper dose of Purgatives | 497 |
| 7. | On the Treatment of Hypercatharsis | 499 |
| 8. | On the Antidotes called Hieræ | 500 |
| 9. | On Liniments to be applied to the Anus, and purgative Applications to the Navel | 502 |
| 10. | On Emetics | 503 |
| Modes of administering hellebore | 504 | |
| 11. | On the different kinds of Antidotes | 510 |
| 12. | On Trochisks, or Troches | 528 |
| 13. | On Dry Applications and Abstergents (Smegmata) | 536 |
| 14. | On Liniments to the Mouth and Throat | 541 |
| 15. | On Delicious and Officinal Potions | 544 |
| 16. | On Collyria and Agglutinative Applications | 548 |
| 17. | On Plasters, and those things which are added to the boiling of them, from the Works of Antyllus, and on the proportion of wax to oil | 558 |
| 18. | On Emollient Plasters and Epithemes | 576 |
| 19. | On Restorative Ointments (Acopa), Liniments, Calefacient Plasters (Dropaces), and Sinapisms | 581 |
| 20. | On Different Preparations of Oil and Ointments | 589 |
| 21. | On Œnantharia | 598 |
| 22. | On Perfumes and Cyphi | 599 |
| 23. | On the Preparations of Masucha, which some call Masuaphium | 601 |
| 24. | On Pessaries, from the Works of Antyllus | ib. |
| 25. | On Medicines which may be substituted for one another, from the Works of Galen | 604 |
| 26. | On Weights and Measures | 609 |
| General Index | 629 | |