[579] The fruit of the pinus pinaster. See Paulus Ægineta, Vol. III., p. 301.
[580] It will be remarked, that in this place the author directs that the bleeding should be carried to a greater extent than in the former part of this treatise. In general, the ancient authorities forbade the abstraction of blood until it induced lipothymia. This is decidedly the rule of practice laid down by Aretæus (De Curat. Morb. Acut., ii., 1).
[581] Galen, in his Commentary, remarks that this account of dysentery is vague, the species of dysentery here alluded to not being properly defined.
[582] This case is vague and undefined. I suppose the author alludes to opisthotonos in this sentence, and to emprosthotonos in the succeeding part of this section.
[583] Bryonia dioica. See Dierbach, etc., p. 131.
[584] Galen, in his Commentary, remarks that the modes of solution in fevers are not completely given in this place; for example, our author omits those by the uterus and the nose.
[585] The text is in a very unsettled state.
[586] The substance of this section occurs in the preceding part of this work, which certainly amounts to a strong presumption that the present treatise is not genuine. Very similar views are also laid down in the treatise On Ancient Medicine.
[587] On the Dietetics of the ancients, see the Commentary on Paulus Æginata, Vol. I., pp. 106–86.
[588] By dry cholera would seem to be meant flatulent colic. See Galen’s Commentary. It is also described below, and further with great accuracy by Alexander Trallian (vii., 16).