[280] Neuberger, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 240–278 for an account of medicine in the early middle ages.
[281] This school was really founded in the first century B.C. According to it disease consists in a contraction or relaxation of the pores (strictus status or laxus status). Nothing but the supposed general condition of the body was of importance. Neuberger, Geschichte der Medizin, vol. 1, pp. 303–309.
[282] A school that appeared in the third century B.C., and corresponded in medicine to the skeptical movement in philosophy. All a priori reasoning was rejected. Ibid., vol. 1, pp. 276–284.
[283] The classical school of medicine founded by Hippocrates. Isidore fails to mention the Pneumatici and the Eclectici (ibid., vol. 1, pp. 327–336), other prominent schools of medicine.
[284] The derivation which Isidore had in mind was probably ζῆν (to live).
[285] The sentence is a confused one. Isidore probably had in mind the derivation of cholera from χολή and ῥέω.
[286] Arteriae. Compare “Sanguis per venas in omne corpus diffunditur et spiritus per arterias.” Cicero, N. D., 2, 55, 138.
[287] Referring to the idea that the elements could pass into one another. See [p. 60].
[288] Du Breul has insania daemonum.
[289] A kind of leprosy.