The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art / A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries

by Edward Berdoe

[770] Iodine was not known at this time; and the virtue of the sponge, if any, was doubtless due to the iodine it contained.

[771] Baas, Hist. Med., p. 299.

[772] Puschmann, Hist. Med. Educ., p. 206. De Renzi, Collect. Salernit., ii. 445, 513, 628, 650, etc.

[773] Hist. diplom. Frid. II. imperat. Paris, 1854. T. iv., pars. 1, p. 149, tit. 44, quoted in Puschmann’s Hist. Med. Education, p. 207.

[774] Hist. diplom. Frid. II., op. cit. p. 235, lib. 3, tit. 46, etc., quoted in Puschmann’s Hist. Med. Educ., p. 208.

[775] A gold tarenus weighed twenty grains.

[776] Puschmann’s Hist. Med. Educ., p. 210.

[777] Aubrey, Hist. England, vol. i. p. 487.

[778] Art. “Astrology,” Ency. Brit., vol. ii. p. 741.

[779] Médecine et Médecins, p. 125.