Of Medicine, in Eight Books

bigness of a sweet almond is given in wine. In other disorders of the body, according to their violence, either the bigness of an Egyptian bean, or a vetch, will be sufficient.

|_Pints_ |_Sol. in. dec._ Ligula |0,-1/48 |0,117-5/12 +------+ | | | 4 |Cyathus |0,-1/12 |0,469-2/3 +------+-----+ | | | 6 | 1 |Acetabulum |0,-1/8 |0,704-1/2 +------+-----+-----...

1. _Chalcitis._) Pliny lib. xxxiv. cap. 2. says, this was an ore of copper, and found in Cyprus. Dioscorides describes the best chalcitis as resembling copper, easily friable, h...

1. Morgagni[JR], with Paaw, thinks it probable, that there is some chasm in the text, because Celsus does not describe the coronal suture, which he could not be ignorant of.

1. _Physician makes a wound._) An English reader may naturally suppose that the term should be _surgeon_; but as our author here uses the word _medicus_, I did not think myself...

3. _From the inguen._) Almeloveen would rather read _ingluvie_, or _sanguine_, than _inguine_. But these cannot be reckoned among the external causes. There is no reason to ques...

1. _Their gods._ Though Æsculapius lived so near to the time of the Trojan war, yet the Greeks knew very little about him. The superstition of those times gave him a place among...

2. _Below the last ribs_, &c.) I have here translated, according to an emendation proposed by Morgagni[JC], who would read, _Qui lumbis sub imis costis inhærent, a parte earum r...

1. _Not but in any weather._) Morgagni observes, that in the original, it should be read, _Non quod non omni tempore, omni tempestatum genere_; so that the translation should ru...

50. _Garum_ was a liquor made of the intestines of fish macerated with salt. So that it was a kind of sanies of them in their putrescent state. It was formerly made of the fish,...

2. _Gum._) Our author here manifestly distinguishes between _lachryma and pituita_. The ancients imagined the _pituita_ to be concreted tears, whereas it is the sebaceous matter...

41. _Lacertus et aurata._) I have chosen rather to retain the Latin appellations of these fish, and several more, than to follow the conjectures of the moderns, where they are n...

VI. The proper times for giving drink to persons in fevers; and the kinds of aliments suited to the several stages of the distempers; together with some general observations, 99

VI. Of the disorders of the eyes, carbuncles of the eyes, pustules, wasting, lice in the eye-lids, dry lippitude, dimness, a cataract, palsy, mydriasis, a weakness, and external...