CONTENTS
OF
THE THIRD VOLUME.

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