Book 28, medicinal uses of the human bodys own products. Minor medicinal herbs, in roughly alphabetical order. The natural history of pliny, volume 1 of 6 by pliny, the elder author. The homepage for plinys natural history the historia naturalis of c. Links to translation of pliny the elder, natural history, by h. Details the history of the world, commonly called the. Historical traditions at wells, 1464, 1470, 1497 pdf. The world, and this whatever other name men have chosen to designate the sky whose vaulted roof encircles the universe is fitly believed to be a deity, eternal, immeasurable, a being that never began.
The 28th on medicines procured from man and from large animals. Links to translation of pliny the elder, natural history. Pliny the elder, the natural history john bostock, m. This edition can be found on the internet archive, with the exception of books. Featured texts all books all texts latest this just in smithsonian libraries fedlink us genealogy lincoln collection. Pliny the elder, tireless researcher and writer, is author of the encyclopedic natural history, in 37 books, an unrivaled compendium of roman knowledge. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the.