Adversaria medico-philologica / by W.A. Greenhill.

  • William Alexander Greenhill
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[1864-1872]
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    12 the blood to escape, as in a passage of Galen,1 where it is opposed to rpcoOelaris, and answers to dvevpvvOeiops in Antyllus.3 avaaTopaHTLs had three very different- meanings, derived from the three senses of dvaaropoco, given above :— 1. One of the species of haemorrhage recognised by the old writers,3 rendered by Caelius Aurelianus4 osculatio, and explained bv Celsus to apply to haemorrhage “ ore alicujus venae patefacto.”5 This sense of the word is at least as old as the time of Erasistratus, who was perhaps the author of it.6 2. Anastomosis, in the modern sense of the word, or the communication between the arteries and veins, as if by the mouths or open ends of the one set of vessels being joined to those of the other.7 This communication was perfectly familiar to Erasistratus, who, however, believed that the arteries con- tained only air; it is also discussed at some length by Galen, who knew that the arteries contained blood : all which makes it the more surprising that the circulation of the blood should have been so long undiscovered. 8. Simple dilatation, without any escape of blood, in the passage of Paulus .iEgineta before referred to,8 synonymous with avevpva-pdg and avevpvvens in Antyllus.9 dvacrTopcoTLKos, calculated to open or dilate the mouths of vessels, applied chiefly to medicines,10 rendered by Cselius Aurelianus, “medicamina osculantia, provocativa, apertiva.”11 The expression dvaaropcoTLKr] bvvapLs is used by Galen.12 In the Hippocratic Collection the word dvao-ro/ramjpioj13 is used in the same sense as dvao-ropcorucos; but dvdcrropos, which is inserted in some lexicons, and from which comes the word dvao-TopuTepaw, formerly found in the Hippocratic Collection,14 is probably no genuine word. It is not recognised by Liddell and Scott, and in his edition of Hippocrates, Littre has do-Topco- ripcov, which is no doubt the correct reading. avevpvo-pos, a dilatation, synonymous with avevpvvcrLs, and, when applied to an artery, constituting dvevpvcrpa, aneurysm.15 dvevpvcrpa, an aneurysm, in the modern sense of the word, is probably not to 1 ‘ De Tumor, praat. Nat.,’ c. 11, tom. vii. p. 725, 1. 4. This passage is quoted by Oribasius (‘Coll. Medic.,’ xlv 23, § 1, tome iv. p. 51, ed. Daremberg) and by Paulus iEgineta (vi. 37, p. 180, ed. Briau), and appears to have been misunderstood by Freind, when he says (‘Hist, of Physio,’ vol. i.) that Fernel was the first person who attributed aneurysm to dilatation. See Briau’s Note on Paulus iEgineta, loco cit. See also the explanation of dvevpvcrpa on this page. 3 In Oribasius, ‘ Coll. Medic.,’ xlv. 24, § 1, tome iv. p. 52. 3 Galen, ‘ De Caus. Symptom.,’ iii. 5, tom. vii. p. 232, 1. 1; ‘ De Meth. Med., iv. 1, v. 2, tom. x. p. 233, 1. 1; p. 311, 11. 4, 12, 17; ‘Comment, in Hippocr. “ De Humor.”’ iii. 31, tom. xvi. p 478, 1. 5; ‘ Defin. Med.,’ c. 461, tom. xix. p. 457, 1. 3. 4 ‘Morb. Chron.,’ ii. 10, § 121. 5 ‘De Medic.,’ iv. 11, p. 134, ed. Daremberg. 6 Cselius Aurelianus (loco cit.) says that some persons acknowledged only two kinds of haemorrhage—viz., “ eruptio et putredo, ut Asclepiades; ’ others three viz., “ eraptio et putredo et osculatio, ,ut Erasistratus.'” 7 Galen, ‘De Hsu Part.,’ vi. 17, tom. iii. pp. 492, 493, 494. 8 vi. 37, p. 180, 1. 11, ed. Briau. 9 In Oribas. ‘Coll. Med.,’ xlv. 24, tome iv. p. 52, 1. 11 ; p. 53, 1.1. 10 Celsus, v. 18, § 35; Galen, ‘ De Simplic. Medicam. Temper, ac Facult., v. 14, tom. xi. p. 749, &c. 11 ‘Morb. Chron.,’ ii. 10, § 123 ; ‘ Morb. Acut.,’ iii. 4, § 40. 12 Loco cit., p. 750, 1. 12. 13 ‘ De Nat. Mul.,’ § 109, tome vii. p. 428, 1. 2, ed. Littr6. 14 ‘De Morb. Mul.,’ i. 1, tome viii. p. 12, 1. 3. 18 Galen, ‘Defin. Med.,’ c. 378, tome xix. p. 441; Antyllus, in Onbas. ‘Coll.