[2884] I, 63.
[2885] II, 65.
[2886] III, 61.
[2887] Sloane 475 (olim Fr. Bernard 116), 231 leaves, including two codices, one of the 12th century, which is also medical but with which we shall not deal at present, and the other of the 10th or 11th century and written in different hands. The MS is mutilated both at the beginning and the close.
Sloane 2839, 11th century, 112 leaves.
[2888] Sloane 2839, fols, iv-3, “Liber Cirrurgium Cauterium Apollonii et Galieni.” James, Western MSS in Trinity College, Cambridge, III, 26-8, describes fifty drawings, chiefly of surgical operations, in MS 1044, early 13th century. By that date cauterization seems to have become less common.
[2889] Professor T. W. Todd thinks that I am too severe upon the practice of cauterization, and that it may sometimes have served as a counter-irritant like mustard plasters and the blister.
[2890] Sloane, 2839, fols. 79v-80v.
[2891] “Ad stomachum ubi ferro operare non oportes sansugias apponas.”
[2892] Imbrocare. I have not discovered exactly what it means.