[1022] Consul, A.U.C. 816.
[1023] Judging from this symptom, Dalechamps says that it looks more like chancre than carbuncle.
[1024] In B. xx. c. 52.
[1025] Supposed, as Pliny says, to have originally come from Upper Egypt. Lucretius, B. vi. l. 1111, et seq., attributes it to the water of the Nile. It is but rarely known in Europe.
[1026] Fée thinks that this may have been a sort of abscess similar to those between the fingers which are known as fourches by the French, and by medical men as “Aposthema phalangum.” Gruner considers it to be a sort of Elephantiasis, and Triller identifies it with the disease called Gumretha by the Talmudists.
[1027] “Colum.” Fée takes this to be Schirrus of the colon.
[1028] See B. xxix. c. i.
[1029] See end of B. xx.
[1030] See B. xxix. c. 3.
[1031] See B. xxix. c. 5.