[400] Celsus, De Medic., Prælat, in lib. i.

[401] Hist. Nat., xxvi. 6.

[402] On the question of the authenticity of this epistle see Dr. Adams’ commentary in his Paulus Ægineta, vol. i. p. 186.

[403] Hist. de la Méd., vol. i. pp. 422-3.

[404] Œuvres d’Hippocr., vol. i. p. 202, etc.

[405] Cæl. Aurel., De Morb. Acut., iii. 17.

[406] Le Clerc, Hist. de la Méd. Meryon, Hist. Med., p. 35.

[407] Études Biographiques par Paul-Antoine, Cap. p. 26. The Treatise on Stones by Theophrastus is one of the first works we possess on the study of minerals.

[408] Alexandria and her Schools, p. 6.

[409] Galen, De Uteri Dissect., c. 5, vol. ii. p. 895.