[407] Paulus Aegineta, bk. VI. ch. 80.
[408] Galen, Method. med. ad Glaucon. bk. II. ch. 1. (XI. p. 77.), De tumor. praet. nat. ch. 15. (VII. p. 729.), Comment. in Hippocrat. Aphorism. (XVII. B. p. 636.).—Paulus Aegineta, bk. IV. ch. 22. Actuarius, bk. II. ch. 12. Cassius, Problem. 42. Nonnus, Epitom. 247. Heliodorus, in Mai’s Class. auctor. e Vatic. codd. edit. Vol. IV. p. 13. note 3.
[409] Galen, Method. med. bk. XIII. ch. 5. (X. pp. 180 sqq.). Comp. Celsus, bk. V. ch. 28. Oribasius, Sympos. bk. VII. 31., De morb. curat. bk. III. ch. 46.
[410] Hippocrates, De natura pueri, Vol. I. p. 390.
[411] Hippocrates, Epidem. bk. VI. Vol. III. p. 619.
[412] In reference to ανθραξ Galen says, Isagog. ch. 16. (XIX. p. 777.): ἀνθράκωσις δέ ἐστιν ἕλκος ἐσχαρῶδες μετὰ νομῆς καὶ ῥεύματος καὶ βουβῶνος ἐνίοτε καὶ πυρετῶν γινομένων περὶ τὸ ἄλλο πᾶν σῶμα, ἔστι δὲ ὅτε καὶ περὶ ὀφθαλμούς. (But ἀνθράκωσις (malignant ulcer) is a scabby ulcer conjoined with eating ulcer and discharge and bubo, as also with fevers sometimes affecting the whole body and at other times the eyes in particular).
[413] Galen, loco citato p. 887., ἐχούσης δὲ τῆς τοιαύτης τὸ μῆκος μεῖζον τοῦ πλάτους, ἐγκάρσιον ἔστω τὸ μῆκος ἐπὶ τοῦ Βουβῶνος, οὐ κατ’εὐθὺ τοῦ κώλου· καὶ γὰρ κατὰ φύσιν οὕτως ἐπιπτύσσεται τὸ δέρμα ἑαυτῷ, καμπτόντων τὸ κῶλον. (But such an incision having greater length than breadth, the length should be diagonally to the groin, not in the line of the direct diameter of the limb. For in this way the skin is naturally folded over itself, when patients bend the limb).
[414] Sextus Placitus Papyriensis, De medicamentis ex animal. ch. 1. note 14., Cervi pudenda si tecum habueris, inguina tibi non tumebunt, et si tumor antiquus fuerit, velociter recedet. (If you carry with you a stag’s genitals, your groin will never swell, and if you have a long-standing swelling, it will quickly disappear.) We must further note supplementarily that Prophylactics against female gonorrhœa appear also to have been known and used; at any rate Galen, Euporist. bk. II. ch. 26. note 37. (XIV. p.485.), cites measures against humidity of the genital organs during coition πρὸς τὸ μὴ καθυγραίνεσθαι τὸ αἰδοῖον ἐν ταῖς συνουσίαις τῶν γυναικῶν;—(to guard against the humidity of the genitals in coition amongst women), consisting in fact in unripe gall-apples, ashes and wine as a lotion, or infusion of gall-apples with sulphurated wool as a vaginal-plug, honey and nitre as an embrocation!
[415] Galen, Method. med. bk. II. ch. 2. (X. p. 83).
[416] Hippocrates, Aphorismor. Vol. III. p. 742., De liquidorum usu Vol. II. p. 163.