[480] A considerable portion of the Prognostics from Sleep are taken from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 497. This part is elegantly rendered by Celsus: “Ubi nocturna vigilia premitur, etiamsi interdiu somnus accedit; ex quo tamen pejor est, qui inter quartam horum et noctem est, quam qui matutino tempore ad quartam. Pessimum tamen est, si somnus neque noctu, neque interdiu accedit; id enim fere sine continuo dolore esse non potest.” (ii., 4.) Stephanus gives a philosophical disquisition on the nature and causes of sleep. (pp. 142–8.)
[481] This is pretty closely taken from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 601.
[482] A small part of this is to be found in the Coacæ Prænotiones, 609.
[483] Part of this is borrowed from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 601.
[484] Strigmentosa: that is to say, resembling the scrapings or strippings of the bowels.
[485] This in part is borrowed from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 604, 631.
[486] This is pretty closely copied from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 495.
[487] This is taken from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 281. Several of the other ancient writers on medicine, both Greek and Arabian, have treated fully on the characters of the alvine discharges; but, upon the whole, have not added much to the information contained in the Coacæ Prænotiones and Prognostics. See the Commentary on Paulus Ægineta, B. II., 13. Stephanus has many interesting observations on the prognostics from the urine. He remarks that the urine is a good index of the condition which the digestive process is in, and more especially the process of sanguification. (p. 162.)
[488] This is closely copied from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 575.
[489] According to Stephanus, both the farinaceous and leafy sediments are the products of a melting of the solid parts, as a consequence of inflammatory heat. (p. 165.)