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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    to be attainable only by royal personages. Colligere frigus is to catch cold ; tentatus frigore is seized with a cold. Hie oculis ego nigra meis collyria lippus illinere, here I anointed my inflamed eyes with black ointment. What this black ointment was is not stated in any of the com- mentaries; Celsns gives the formulae for several, among which this may possibly be. Again we have lippus inungi, Crispinus lippus *^ and oculis lippus in- unciis. The crippling eflrects of gont are portrayed at Sat. II, 7, 14: That buffoon Volanerius, when the deserved gont had crippled his fingers, maintained a fellow, hired by the day, to take np the dice and put them into a box for him. The removal of the horny growth from the fore- head of Messiiis, spoken of in the description of the journey to Brundusium,™ was doubtless effected by some surgeon; an ugly scar attested the operation. The Csesarean operation is clearly referred to in the De Arte Poet., 339: ISTor take out of a witch's belly [aZvo], a living child, that she had dined upon. In Sat. II, 3, we have a discussion of in- sanity, with a description of various types. It enumerates many well-known forms but omits others. There is no mention, e. g., of general paralysis of the insane (referred to by Pliny), nor of alcoholic, puerperal or epileptic insanity. Although but a desultory description, it is worth a closer study. In Horace's physiology, the liver secreted bile as now, but figuratively it was also the seat of anger and lust. meum Fervens difficili bile tumet jecur, si My infiamed liver swells with bile difficult to be repressed. libido Saeviet circa jeciir ulcerosum, ^2 And hot lust shall rage about your ulcerous liver. Non ancilla tuum jecur ulceret ulla, let no young slave in- flame your liver. Meum jecur urere hilis, anger galled 3 See Celsus, lib. Ill, 24. i' Epist. I, 1, 29. si Od. I, 13, 3. 4 Epist. T, 2, 13. 48 Sat. I, 1, 120. Od. I, 25, 15. 45 Sat. I, ], 80. 40 Sat. I, 3, 25. Epist. I, 18, 72. 4 Sat. I, 5, 30. 60 Sat. I, 5, 58. Sat. I, 9, 66.