[459] See Dr. Adams’ edition, vol. iii. p. 551, as compared with the Basle edition, p. 78.
[460] The central figure shows the size of the stone, and the intagliate inscription on one side. The other figures show its three inscriptions as they read from left to right when stamped on wax.
[461] See Scribonius Largus in Medicæ Artis Principes, p. 209; Marcellus Empiricus, in ibid. p. 326.
[462] Kühn’s edit. of Galen, vol. xii. p. 751.
[463] Ibid. p. 772.
[464] Ibid. p. 760.
[465] Ibid. vol. xi. p. 715.
[466] Medicæ Artis Principes: De Medicamentis Lib., p. 280.
[467] Spon also (see his Miscellanea Eruditæ Antiquitatis, p. 236) supposed the Nymegen and Genoa medicine-stamps (the only specimens known to exist at the time at which he wrote) to have belonged to some of those practitioners (Myropolæ or Unguentarii) who professed to cure diseases principally by the external application of oils, ointment, and friction,—a form of charlatanry not altogether unknown in this, the nineteenth century. According to Pliny, Prodicus, a disciple of Hippocrates, founded the mode of cure termed “Iatraleptice.” By this means (adds Pliny) he opened a road to riches to the slaves and rubbers themselves employed by the physicians (reunctoribus quoque medicorum ac mediastinis vectigal invenit). See his Historia Naturalis, lib. xxiv. cap. i. in Leyden edition of 1695, vol. iii. p. 187.
[468] Kühn’s Galen, vol. xii. p. 787, 786, and 769. Actuarius gives a formula for a collyrium melinum, but it is a copy of the last of Galen. See Medicæ Artis Principes, p. 309.