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![\y / \ i, / ^ ^ |r / Adversaria Medico-Philologica. Part XIII. bpaKovrtbes is said by Rufus Ephesius1 to be a name given by Hippocrates to the veins taking their origin directly from the heart; but the word has not been found in any part of the Hippocratic Collection as it at present exists. The word is explained in nearly the same sense by Psellus.2 hpaoTMos, active, efficacious, applied to medicines in general, and not especially (as in modern times) to purgatives.3 bpeiravoeibes opyavov, the falciform instrument, the name of a sort of knife used for fistula in ano.4 bpunra£, a pitch-plaster, seems to have been considered a com- paratively modern term in the time of Galen,5 6 in the second century after Christ, though it had been used by writers in the previous century.® The more ancient word was Trirruims or TrirroKonh]. It was used as a slight counter-irritant, and as a depilatory, and for the singular purpose of causing a slight degree of swelling, and thus creating an appearance of plumpness in parts of the body that were in reality thin or wasted. Thus, Dioscorides speaks of b nDv rrwfiaTep7rupwv bptixa£, “ the dropax of the slave-dealers,” which ex- pression is not explained by Sprengel, but is illustrated by a passage, where Galen7 describes the whole process. There is a good note on the word (which has been used in this article) in Dr. Daremberg’s Oribasius, tome ii, p. 884. See also Adams’s Commentary on Paulus ^Egineta, vol. iii, p. 587. 1 ‘ De Appell. Part. Corp. Hum.,’ p. 42,1. 2, ed. Clinch. 2 ‘ Lex Med.,' in Boissonade’s ‘ Anecd. Gr.,’ vol. i, p. 239. 3 Dioscorides, ‘ Mat. Med.,’ i, 18, tom. i, p. 35, 1. 5, ed. Sprengel; Leo, ‘ Consp. Medic.,’ iii, 12, in Ermerins, ‘ Anecd. Med. Gr.,’ p. 133,1. ult. ; Theophanes Nonnus, ‘ De Cur. Morb.,’ c. 33, tom. i, p. 136,1. 4. 4 Leo, ‘ Consp. Medic.,’ v, 19, in Ermerins, ‘ Anecd. Med. Gr.,’ p. 183, 1. 1. 5 Galen speaks of wliat “ the present Greeks (oi vvv'EWijvec) call Spunra£ ” (‘ De San. Tu.,’ vi, 8, tom. vi, p. 416, 1, 8). 6 Archigenes, in Aetius, i, 3,180, p. 159, ed. H. Steph.; and in Leo, ‘ Consp. Medic.,’ ii, 15, in Ermerins, ‘ Anecd. Med. Gr.,’ p. 121; Dioscorides, ‘ Eupor.,’ i, 240; ii, 35, vol. ii, p. 221, 1. ult.; p. 249, 1. 7; Martial, ‘Epigr.,’ iii, 74, 1; x, 65, 8.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22460500_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
