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

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[1901?]
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Credit: The medicine and doctors of Horace / by Eugene F. Cordell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L238] veiernus; insanity, iracunda Diana, furor, insaiiia, rabies; ulcer, ulcus, ulcera incurata; hydrophobia, rabies canis, rabiosa canis; diabetes [if the lines Si tibi nulla sitirn llniret copia lyniplia', Narrnres medicis; justify this diagnosis] ; wound, vulnus; itch, scabies; jaun- dice, morbus regius; cold, frigus; conjunctivitis, lippitudo; strabismus, strabo; club-foot, male pravce tales, crura dis- torta; wart, verruca; protuberance, tuber; a horny growth on the forehead, frons exsecfo cornu; fracture of the leg, crus fractum; Campanian disease, morbus Campanus [a skin eruption accompanied by pimples or warts]; mole, ncevus; gout, nodosa (knotty) chiragra, tarda (crippling) podagra; cough, tussis; wax in the ear, auriculae dolentes collecta sorde; plague, pestis; canities, and bites of dogs and serpents. The allusion to dropsy is strikingly graphic: As the love of money increases with its gratification, so the direful dropsy increases by self-indulgence, nor does it extinguish its thirst, unless the cause of the disease has departed from the veins, and the watery languor from the pallid body. There is an allusion to this affection also in Epist. I, 2, 34: Si noles sanus, curres hydropicus, although you are un- willing to move when well, you will run fast enough [to the doctor], when you get the dropsy. The origin of consumption and fevers, as a retribution for the theft of fire from heaven by Prometheus, is strikingly put— macies, et nova febrium Terris incubuit cobors,'*» as if they were swarms of noxious winged creatures. The polypus of the nose, resembled more ozaena, from the fetid odor which accompanied it, than what we know as polypus. The word scabies occurs three times. Occupet extremum scabies, the devil take the hindmost! The jaundice is called morbus regius,'' not because like scrofula in later times, it was curable by the king's touch, but because, in its treatment, it required care and delicacies which are supposed 39 Od. II, 2, 13. ■»2 De Arte Poet. (U)