The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome

¶ IN THE XXV. BOOKE ARE CONTAINED the natures of hearbes and weeds that come vp of themselues. The reputation that hearbes haue been of. When they began first to be vsed. (Book 25)

• ...Chap.
• 1. The properties and natures of wild herbes growing of their owne accord.
• 2. What Authours haue written in Latine of the nature and vse of hearbes. When the knowledge of simples began first to be pra∣ctised at Rome. What Greeke Authours

• first wrote of herbes, the inuention and fin∣ding out of sundry hearbes, the Physicke of old time. What is the cause that Sim∣ples are not so much in request and vse for Physicke as in old time. The medicinable vertues of the Eglantine and Serpentary or Dragon.
• 3. Of a certaine venomous fountaine in Al∣maine, the vertues and properties of the herbe Britannica, what diseases cause the greatest paines.
• 4. Of Moly, of Dodecatheos, of Paeonium, named otherwise Pentorobus, and Glycy∣side, of Panace or Asclepios, of Heraclium, of Panace Chironeum, of Panace Centau∣reum or Pharnaceum, of Heraclium Side∣rium, of Henbane.
• 5. Of the herbe Mercurie female, of Parthe∣nium, of Hermu-Poea, or rather Mercurie: of Yarow, of Panace Heracleum, of Side∣ritis, of Millefoile, of Scopa regio, of He∣mionium, Teucrium, Splenium, Melampo∣dium or blacke Ellebore, and how many kinds there be of them. The medicinable vertues of blacke and white Ellebore: when Ellebore is to be giuen, how it is to be ta∣ken, to whom it is not to be giuen, also that it killeth Mice and Rats.
• 6. Of Mithridatium, of Scordotis or Scordi∣um, of Polemonia, otherwise called Phile∣taeria or Chiliodynama, of Eupatorie or Agrimonie, of great Centaurie otherwise called Chironium, of the lesse Centaurie or Libadium, called Fel Terrae, i. the gall of the Earth. Of Triorches, and their ver∣tues.
• 7. Of Clymenus, Gentian, Lysimachia and Parthenius or Motherwort, Mugwort, Am∣brose, Nenuphar, Heraclium, and Euphor∣bia, with all their vertues medicinable.
• 8. Of Plantaine, Buglosse, Hounds tongue, Oxe-eye or May weed, of Scythica, Hip∣pice and Ischaemon, of Betonie, Cantabri∣ca, Settarwort, of Dittander or Hiberis, of Celendine the greater, Celendine the lesse or Pilewort, of Canaria, of Elaphoboscos, of Dictamnum, of Aristolochia or Hart∣wort, how fishes will come to it for loue of bait, and so are soone caught. The counter∣poysons against stinging of serpents, by these herbes abouenamed.
• 9. Of Argemonia, of Agaricke, Echium, Henbane, Vervaine, Blattaria, Lemonia, Cinquefoile, Carot, Persalata, the Clot Burre, Swines bread or Cyclaminus, Har∣strang: all very good for the sting of ser∣pents.
• 10. Of Danewort or Walwort, of Mullin, of Thelyphonon. Remedies against the sting of Scorpions, the biting of Toades and mad Dogs, and generally against all poy∣sons.
• 11. Receits and remedies against head-ach and diseases of the head.
• 12. Of Centaurie, Celendine, Panace, and Henbane, and Euphorbium, all soueraigne medicines for the eies.
• 13. Of Pimpernell or Corchorus, of Man∣dragoras or Circeium, of Henbane, of Crethmoagrion, of Molybdaena, of Fu∣miterre, of Galengale, of Floure de lis, of Cotyledon, or Vmbilicus Veneris, of Housleeke or Sengreene, of Pourcellane, of Groundswell, of Ephemerum, of great Tazill, of Crow-foot: which affourd me∣dicines against the infirmities and diseases of the eyes, eares, nosthrils, teeth, and mouth.

In summe, this Booke doth yeeld of medicines, stories, and obseruations, a thousand two hundred ninetie and two.

Latine Authours cited.

M. Varro, C. Volgius, Pompeius Lenaeus, Sextius Niger, and Iulius Bassus, who both wrote in Greeke, Antonius Castor, and Cornelius Celsus.

Forreine Writers.

Theophrastus, Apollodorus, Democritus, king Iuba, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Mago, Menander who wrote Biochresta, Nicander, Homer, Hesiodus, Musaeus, Sophocles, Xanthus, and Anaxilaus.

Physitians.

Mnestheus, Callimachus, Phanias the naturall Philosopher, Timaristus, Simus, Hippocrates, Chry∣sippus, Diocles, Ophion, Heraclides, Hicesius, Dionysius, Apollodorus the Tarentine, Praxagoras,

Plistonicus, Medius, Dieuches, Cleophantus, Philistio, Asclepiades, Cratevas, Iolla, Erasistratus, Diagoras, Andreas, Mnesicles, Epicharmus, Damion, Theopolemus, Metrodorus, Solon, Lycus, Olympias the mid∣wife of Thebes, Phyllinus, Petreius, Miction, Glaucias and Xenocrates.