318 NOTES

, 5* Avicenna!s error (nomine deceptus, says Manardi of Ferrara),
in identifying the three kinds of herpes with myrmecia, was quoted
in his discussion of herpes by Manardi, (1462—1536), the pupil of
Leoniceno, as having been first observed by his teacher ; see p. 143,.
"Three kinds of myrmecia were distinguished by the ancients, formica
ambulatiwa, miliaris, corrosiva. Celsus V. 28.14 discusses mamrme—
kion together with clavus, corn, as & sort of wart which occurs
especially on the hands and feet.

9* Greek r(Xos, 'callosity!, especially on the hands, caused e. g.
by rowing; cp. the modern term tylosis.

9: For $onthc see p. 169. Cosso, Italian for pimple, used of small
pustules on the face, especially near the nose. i
, * Greek gxXO«ra«wa, blister, due to cold, heat, or drugs, accord—
ing to Celsus V. 28.15. Thuecydides II. 49 uses this word for the
pustules caused by the plague.

93 Greek yvöp&«wo», jlittle pustule! derived from Wvöpos false?,
because this sort of impetigo or eczema was supposed to be the
punishment of liars, liar!s blisters'.

s:Celsus V. 28. 18 describes two kinds of papulae. The more
severe kind, which is ^less round'?, may turn to impetigo unless
removed, as Fracastorius says, echoing him.

s 'The poet is Martial, Epigrams 11. 98. 5, sordidique lichenes.
Meunier mistranslates: *les poetes appellent Lichens les gens sales.??

* Pliny XXVI. 2, says that mentagra is the Latin for lichen, and
Fracastorius slightly misunderstood the sentence.

*' Latume, a term which dates from the 13th cent. A. D., is
more correctly /acfumen (lac, milk), an affection of the heads of
nursing infants, also called crusifa /acfea, 'milkk cake', or *juvenile
eczema'.

95 For saphati see note 44.

9* Struma (sometimes scrofa, lit. '& breeding—sow') was a general
term for a scrofulous tumor; used of goitre and glandular swellings,
especially of the neck. Vigo mentions the latter as & symptom of
syphilis.