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fact he was rather despised as a fashionable 'beauty doctor! by more
austere medical authorities.

6s Galen, On Therapeutic Prac(ice, Book 2. Ch. 12, says:  "In
Egypt many suffer from it on account of the way they live, and the
heat; but in Germany and Mysia it is rare, and the milk—drinking
Scythians hardly ever have it.*?

69 For Impetigo compared with Lichen, see below, p. 183.
70 Here, as occasionally elsewhere, pituita is & synonym for phlegm.

: Here he seems to accept the statement of Archigenes, rather
than that of Galen, see note 68.

1: For Ionthi (Greek l6v0o, buds or bourgeons) see p. 179.
Aetius wrote a monograph De »aris faciet, qui tum Ionthoi tum
Acnae a Graecis vocantur. 1 give the Latin title, and here, if not
earlier, occurs the error in the word 'acne' which persists in modern
medicine. It should be spelt 'acme' or 'acmae' (plura!), from the
Greek 4«uw7, a point. Aristotle, Problema 36, asks, '^Why are
Ionthoi usually on the face?!! Latin writers sometimes use the
incorrect form 'hianthes'. Pliny ealls them 'vari'. Ionthoi occurs
in Aristotle, Historta Animalium, Ch. 31, of pimples that contain
small parasites.

* It is a question what he means by cholera pura, 'unmixed
(Greek &xpæros) bile!, a term used by Hippocrates. Galen says
that it means ^consisting of one humor only.^ Jones, Irn/roduc—
tson to Hippocrates, Vol. I. p. li, says, "It is more likely that the word
means properly, showing signs that «p&c«s has not taken place.!!
Here, however, GQalen!s interpretation seems the more suitable.
Crasis is the Greek term for harmonious blending of the humors.

4 Epinyctis (Greek &wt, in, »6&, night), 'night—blains', pustula
nocturna, is described by Hippocrates; it is probably herpes
zoster, shingles (Richter). Celsus V. 28. 15 says it is the worst
and most painful kind of pustule, "though no larger than a bean"';
bluish, black, or white; contains ezulceratio mucosa.

7 Hssere, essara, ïaran, ex—Nara&a represent the Arabic el sari,
tepidemie' or 'contagious' disease. A Syriac term for erysipelas
is maöXarä&.  Essera in later medical writers often means simply 'red
spots'; sometimes eczema rubra; not found in Celsus.

* Hippocrates uses the term herpes esthiomenos, 'eating herpes',
(Greek &c0(o, eat, &pro, creep), and it was used generically by
ancient writers for all forms of 'ambulative' ulcerations.

*" Herpes miliaris, millet herpes (Greek, «&yxpos, millet).

7$ The Italian name for shingles, fuoco salvatico, wild fire, is,
like the word savage, derived from this epithet syjl»a£ficus, 'of the
wood', i. e. running wild.

1 Celsus, who flourished 50 A. ». wrote in Latin. He was appar—
ently not a physician and is not mentioned by Galen. / Wellmann
suggests that he merely translated a Greek work by Menekrates, a
Greek doctor at the court of Tiberius. His treatise De Medicina