[113] Kühlewein, i. 79, regards this as an interpolated passage.
[114] Littré, ii. 112; Kühlewein, i. 79. The texts vary: Kühlewein is followed except in the last sentence.
[115] Περὶ τέχνες, § 3.
[116] Περὶ νούσων α’, § 6.
[117] A reference to dissection in the περὶ ἄρθρων, On thejoints, § 1, appears of the present writer to be of Alexandrian date.
[118] They are to be found as an Appendix to Books I and III of the Epidemics and embedded in Book III.
[119] John Cheyne (1777-1836) described this type of respiration in the Dublin Hospital Reports, 1818, ii, p. 216. An extreme case of this condition had been described by Cheyne’s namesake George Cheyne (1671-1743) as the famous ‘Case of the Hon. Col. Townshend’ in his English Malady, London, 1733. William Stokes (1804-78) published his account of Cheyne-Stokes breathing in the Dublin Quarterly Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1846, ii, p. 73.
[120] The Epidaurian inscriptions are given by M. Fraenkel in the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum IV, 951-6, and are discussed by Mary Hamilton (Mrs. Guy Dickins), Incubation, St. Andrews, 1906, from whose translation I have quoted. Further inscriptions are given by Cavvadias in the Archaiologike Ephemeris, 1918, p. 155 (issued 1921).
[121] We are almost told as much in the apocryphal Gospel ofNicodemus, § 1, a work probably composed about the end of the fourth century.
[122] Astley Paston Cooper, Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints, London, 1822, and Observations on Fractures of the Neck and the Thighbone, &c., London, 1823.