[481] Aretæus, Cur. ac. L. II. c. 3. p. 188.

[482] Cæl. Aurel. c. 33. p. 150.

[483] L. II. c. 3. p. 30.

[484] Aret. Cur. ac. L. II. c. 3. p. 193.

[485] Cæl. Aurel. c. 31. p. 146.

[486] Cæl. Aurel. c. 31. p. 146.

[487] Cæl. Aurel. c. 33. p. 153. A perfectly similar observation is made in the present day, on the increasing frequency of liver complaints in England. Parents who have been a long time in the East Indies, entail the predisposition to these diseases, which are altogether foreign to the temperate zones, on their posterity, among whom there is no need of a tropical heat, but merely common causes acting in their own country, to call forth various liver complaints. See Bell (George Hamilton).

[488] Cæl. Aurel. c. 36. p. 159.

[489] On this subject, read the classical work of Baccius.

[490] Celsus, L. III. c. 19. p. 140. Cæl. Aurel. from c. 37. on.