[509] A considerable part of this section on ulcerated sore-throat is extracted from the Coacæ Prænotiones. The present sentence is from § 276. The medical reader will not fail to remark that Hippocrates displays a wonderfully accurate acquaintance with these affections.
[510] This is founded on the contents of the Coacæ Prænotiones, 363. The disease here described is evidently angina laryngæa.
[511] This is taken in part from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 364. As Dr. Ermerins remarks in his note on it, the disease here described is evidently angina pharyngæa.
[512] This is closely copied from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 365. The danger of erythematous swelling being determined inwards, is well understood nowadays.
[513] This is taken, with slight alterations, from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 365, 367. The latter clause is more fully expressed in the Coacæ Prænotiones than in the Prognostics. “In those cases in which cynanche is determined to the lungs, some die in seven days, and some escaping these get into a state of empyema, unless they have a pituitous expectoration.” This is evidently a correct description of the disease spreading to the lungs.
[514] No part of this last clause is to be found in the Coacæ Prænotiones. The operations of excising and burning the diseased uvula are minutely described by Paulus Ægineta and other of the ancient authorities. See Paulus Ægineta, B. VI., 31. I need scarcely remark that both these operations have been revived of late years.
[515] This is taken with little variation from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 146.
[516] A part of what precedes is taken from the Coacæ Prænotiones, 143; all that follows, with the exception of a short sentence, is original.
[517] Our author here and elsewhere impresses it upon his readers that it is from the tout ensemble of the symptoms that a judgment is to be formed in every case. This is evidently a remark of the most vital importance in forming a prognosis. Galen’s observations in the succeeding commentary are very interesting, and deserve an attentive perusal.
[518] That is to say, the physician ought to get speedily acquainted with the nature of the epidemics which prevail at every particular season. I need scarcely remark that this is a subject which is largely treated of in the works of our English Hippocrates, Sydenham. Hippocrates himself is very full on this head, more especially in his Epidemics and Aphorisms, as we shall see below.