[167] Consilia secundum viam Avicennae ordinata (Lugd. 1535), Consil. 299.
[168] Les Oeuvres d’Ambrose Paré (Lyons, 1652), p. 476, etc.; or Uffenbach’s Thesaurus Chirurgiæ (Frankfort, 1610), p. 428, etc.
[169] Joannis Fernelii Ambiani Universa Medicina (Geneva, 1680), pp. 579 and 517.
[170] Julii Palmarii Constantini, Medici Parisienis, de Morbis Contagiosis Libri Septem (Frankfort, 1601), pp. 257-326.
[171] Opera Observationum et Curationum quæ extant Omnia (Frankfort, 1646), p. 973.
[172] See in Gesner’s Collection De Chirurgiâ Scriptores, etc. (Tiguri 1555), a tract entitled “Examen Leprosorum.” Gregory Horst, Operum Medicorum, tom. ii. (Norimberg, 1660), p. 127. Franciscus de Porta, Medicæ Decad. cap. xxx. lib. 4. Von Forrest’s Observationes Medicæ et Chirurgicæ, lib. iv. p. 103. Schenckius, Observationum Medicarum Rariorum Libri Septem (Frankfort, 1665), p. 803.
[173] Several of the authors quoted above, divide the species Lepra into four modifications or varieties: the Lepra Leonina, Lepra Elephantia, Lepra Alopecia, and Lepra Tyria. This division, which some of them freely allow to be founded more in theory than in nature, seems to have been first proposed by Constantinus Africanus. (De Morborum Cognitione, chap. 17.) Like the fanciful fourfold subdivision of other diseases, it was made in correspondence with the Hippocratic and Galenic doctrine of the four humours. Theodoric, Arnald, Gilbert, and the other authors who, in accordance with the pathological creeds of the time, were led to adopt it, attribute each particular variety to the operation and predominance of a particular humour. John of Gaddesden has attempted, in his Rosa Anglica, to dress up different medical doctrines in rude Latin hexameters, and amongst others, he announces the doctrine in question in the five following lines:—
Sub specie tetrâ deturpat corpora Lepra;
Tiria prima datur, de flegmate quae generatur;
Turpe pilos pascens Alopicus, sanguine nascens;