# A COMPREHENSIVE INDEX OF MONSTERS AND MEMORABLE MATTERS

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**Abavus**: who he is, 111. f.

**Abortion**: when it is so called, 62. d.

**Aborted fetus**: a three-month-old specimen given to Aldrovandi, 62. d; an illustration of the same, 65.

**Aborted fetus**: one with two heads, 410. a.

**Aborted fetus**: an illustration of one attached to the parenchyma, 63.

**Aborted fetus**: an illustration of one with membranes and umbilical vessels, 64.

**Aborted fetuses**: twenty-two in number, 53. f.

**Abortion**: its causes, 62. d.

**Abstainers**: those made teetotalers by the drinking of certain waters, 209. e.

**Achelous**: changed into a river, 200. b.

**Achili**: who they are, 137. g.

**Achilles**: to whom his arms were given, 205. g.

**Hawk**: its transformation, 204. b.

**Hawk**: one with three feet, 567. e.

**Aconite**: its nature, 198. b.

**Acridophagi** [Locust-eaters]: who they are, 97. e.

**Adages**: derived from the human head, 168. a, b, c, d; from the hair, ibid.; from the forehead, 169. e; from the eyes, 169. f; from the eyebrows, 170. c; from the mouth, ibid. d; from the tongue, 171. e; from the teeth, ibid. g; from the lips, ibid.; from the ears, ibid. b; from the beard and face, 172. b, c; from the chest, 172. d; from the hands, 173. e; from the fingers, 174. d; from the belly, 175. f; from the feet, ibid. h; from the nails, blood, and skin, 176. d; from various ages, 177. e; from childhood and old age, ibid. g; from knowledge, 179. e; from friendship, ibid. g; from human comforts, ibid. h; from poverty, 180. a; from uprightness, ibid. b; from beauty, ibid. d; from vices, 181. f; from movement, 182. b; from the various works of men, 182. c; from the crowd or scarcity of men, 183. c; and from women, 183. g.

**Adam**: whether he was the "soul of the sea," 397. h, 398. a.

**Youth**: what a dead youth signifies, 236. a.

**Adonis**: changed into a flower, 203. e.

**Adonis**: who his mother was, 202. d.

**Strangers**: where they were sacrificed, 315. g.

**Adversary**: how a contradicting opponent should be depicted, 348. e.

**Adultery**: its punishment among the Indians, 457. e.

**Illness**: moral lessons derived from it, 255. a.

**Illnesses**: those of humans, 132. a.

**Egypt**: its hieroglyphic, 154. d.

**Egyptians**: their customs, 95. h.

**Enigmas**: which ones are considered monsters, 319. h.

**Eternity**: its image or likeness, 269. d.

**Aeschylus**: the death of the poet, 274. c.

**Aeneas**: his battle, 207. h.

**Ethiopian**: an illustration of one with four eyes, 11.

**Ethiopian**: a prodigious event involving one, 145. e.

**Ethiopians**: their customs, 95. g.

**Aelurogonum** [Cat-progeny]: what it is, 543. h.

**Aesculapius**: why he was born with a beard, 291. g.

**Aesculapius**: his image on coins, 282. a.

**Aesculapius**: various illustrations of him, 291. f.

**Golden Age**: 209. e.

**Age**: what it is, 69. e.

**Age**: the time suitable for sexual union, 44. b.

**Age**: the nature of human age, 69. e.

**Age**: its division, 19. h.

**Ages**: their number, 70. a, 250. d.

**Ages**: the etymology of the word, 70. b.

**Ages**: the temperaments associated with different ages, 70. d.

**Ages**: moral lessons concerning them, 250. d.

**Affections**: those named after humans, 133. f.

**Affection**: what the "marbled affection" is, 218. c.

**Lamb**: one with a monstrous head, 473. e; an illustration of the same, 471.

**Lamb**: one with two heads born in Bologna, 416. c.

**Lamb**: where a three-headed one was born, ibid.