[185] D. Hennen, Sketches of the Medical Topography of the Mediterranean. London 1830.
[186] Galen, De febr. diff., bk. I., edit. Kühn Vol. VII. 284 sqq., δριμὺ δ’ἀποῤῥοῖ καὶ δακνῶδες περίττωμα τοῖς ἤτοι κακοχυμοτέροις, ἢ ἐδέσματα μοχθηρὰ προσφερομένοις τοιαῦτα γοῦν ἐδέσματα καὶ νῦν ἀναγκασθέντες ἐσθίειν πολλοὶ διὰ λιμὸν οἱ μὲν ἀπέθανον ἀπὸ σηπεδονωδῶν τε καὶ λοιμωδῶν πυρετῶν, οἱ δὲ ἐξανθήμασιν ἑάλωσαν ψωρώδεσι τε καὶ λεπρώδεσιν. (But there discharges an acrid and biting excretion, and this in patients already only too much afflicted with evil humours, or else food becomes noxious to them, though normally able to tolerate such food; and now being forced to eat, many died in consequence of the plague, some from putrefying and pestilential fevers, while others again were attacked by exanthematic eruptions of the psora and lepra types).
[187] Martial, Bk. VI. Epigr. 37.,
O quanta scabie miser laborat!
Culum non habet, est tamen cinaedus.
(How sad a scurvy (scabies) does the wretch groan under! Bottom all gone; and yet he is a cinaedus!)
Bk. XI. Epigr. 8.,
Penelopae licet esse tibi sub principe Nerva
Sed prohibet scabies ingeniumque vetus.
(You may be a Penelope under Nerva as Emperor; only that scurvy hinders you and inveterate viciousness). The mala scabies (horrid scurvy) from Horace, Ars Poet. 453., is familiar; as well as the statement of Justin (Hist. XXXVI. 2.) to the effect that the Jews were driven out of Egypt on account of Scabies and Vitiligo (Tetter), that the Egyptians might not be infected by them. Comp. Michaelis, “Mosaisches Recht”, (Mosaic Law) IV. 209. The infectious nature of psora is declared also by Aristotle, Problem. VII. 8. Galen, De puls. diff., IV. 1. The transition of mentagra into psora has been already mentioned.