Status Updates From Natural History, Volume VI:...

Nearly missed 'bowel catarrh' by reading a comma between. The second reference calls it belly flux. I'm guessing venereal discharge. And the cure is nettles.

A Roman makes the mistake of wearing a floral crown in public view during the secons Punic War and is led to prison. Cleopatra dips a chaplet she's poisoned into wine and gives it to a prisoner to drink to show Antony how easy it'd be to poison him despite his precautions. The prisoner falls down dead.

Not far in but interesting: eyes infected by dust, lots of snake and dog bites. Cabbage popular except in Egypt.