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ï:'"The more common term was quali(ates occultae. When the
known qualities, heat, cold, moisture, dryness, failed to account for
an affection of the humors, they fell back on a qualitas occulta, or
abdita causa; the latter term would cover evil spirits and the devil,
whose action in disease was recognised even by the famous French
physician, Fernelius.  See also, Dedication, p. D, and below, p. 77.
Burton, on spirits and devils as Causes of Disease, reproaches
writers **of the type of Fracastorius and Fernelius, who are weak,
dry, obscure, defective in these mysteries.*!

: He means the Ten Categories of Aristotle, place, time, quality,
quantity, etc. / Meunier did not understand the word decem, and,
without comment, altered to decet, which confuses the construec—
tion. This error is followed by Fossel.

' By primary qualities, he means size, shape, quantity, motion;
see pp. 27, 49. 'This passage is almost exaectly the same as that in
his Crifical. Days, where he maintains that the crises of fevers are
not due to the influence of the heavenly bodies, as Galen thought;
he there refers to this statement in CorWagion, then unpublished.

:4 For the 'spirits' see Introduction, p. xxxv, and below, pp. 33, 61,
89.

5 Ptarmicum, sneeze—wort, Achillea sternutatoria, & yarrow.

:6 He probably means Solanum somnificum, a kind of nightshade.
In the ed. prin. the reading is croco solano stricno, without punctua—
tion; hence Riddell, p. 18, interprets solano sfricno as referring to &
single plant. Celsus II. 33, solanum quam crpoxvror Graecti vocant.

'*TThe (^more favorable position'' for elements and liquids, he
describes in Sympa£hy, p. 67, as that in which the component parts
are as elose as possible to one another.

:'5 Euphorbium is the gum—resin of the spurge Fwphorbia ressmi—
fera of Morocco. Dioscurides III. 82; Pliny XXV. 77 says it was
there discovered by King Juba and named after the king's doctor.

ï9 Tron pyrites, whose use for dispersing the morbid substance of
furuncles etc., is described by Pliny XXXVI. 137; recommended
by Celsus V. 28. 15, for pustules; see below, p. 291.  Dioscurides
V. 125 describes the preparation and uses of rvp(rzjs A(8os.

ao He discusses this sort of antipathy p. 195.

: For the immunity of certain persons, see also pp. 53, 63, 75, 163.

42 This is more fully stated p. 119.

2s Achores is an almost obsolete term for a cutaneous affection
of the head; from Greek, 4xop, scurf: see the Index. In his
poem Sgphilis, Book III. 624, Fracastorius describes the out—
break of furpes achores on the skin of the herdsman Syphilus, but
the word is there used loosely, and perhaps for the sake of the metre,
which does not admit the word pusfulae.

24 See note 4a.
25 See Dedication, p. D.