The medicine and doctors of Horace / by Eugene F. Cordell.

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[1901?]
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    championed by Bianconi, an Italian author, in 1779.'' I [237] have not been able to find Bianconi's work in the libraries here and have therefore not been able to avail myself of his arguments. Targa, the author of the best text of Cel- sus/' and Sprengel in his great history of Medicine/ both agree with him. Finally, a possible explanation of Albinovanus is found in a German translation of the Epistles of Horace by Carl Passow, Leipzig, 1833. He translates Celsus Albinovanus, C. of AlUnova, thus implying that this term indicated the place of his birth or residence. This would assimilate it still closer to the accidental cognomina, to which I have re- ferred. I have met with this explanation nowhere else, and I have not been able to find any such place as Albinova in any of the geographical dictionaries, but it appears both plausible and reasonable. The termination anus woxild correspond with Eomanus, Trojanus, Albanus, etc., and the [338] name Albinovanus certainly suggests place, albi or albia nova. There were several towns of the name albi or albia, and there was an Alba Longa, an Albamarla, an Albamala, an Albamana, and many similar combinations. The termination anus indicates a double word since the adjective termination of polysyllables was not anus but ensis. It is pleasant, thus, to contemplate Horace as the friend of our Eoman Hippocrates, and I feel sure that the works of the genial poet will afford us increased delight from the con- templation of this tie between our profession and him. The following diseases are mentioned in Horace: dropsy, dims hydrops; consumption, macies; malaria, quotidiana, quartana frigida; fever, febris; pleurisy, dolor laterum, dolor miseri lateris, morhus Uteris acutus; polypus nasi; headache, dolor capitis; dyspepsia, dolor cordis; lethargy, lethargus, 38Bianconi, Lettere sopra A. Cornel. Celso, Horn, 1779, 8°, deutsch von [237] S. Ch. Krause, Leipz., 1781. s'Tai-ga, Leonard, 1st ed., Padua, 1769; 2d, 1810; Sd, 1815. 38Sprengel (French trans., Paris, 1815, 9 vols.) says infinitely probable. Tarfja devoted 70 years to the study of Celsus; all authors since his day have adopted his text.