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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    Liber '^ when truth-telling Bacchus opens the secrets of his heart; leni prajcordia mulso Prolueris melius, sii you will with more propriety wash your stomach with soft mead; quid hoc veneni saevit in prcecordiis, what poison is this that rages in my entrails ? [said of the gar- lic] ; et inquietis assidens prcecordiis, ^ and brooding upon your restless hreasts ; incestuit prcecordiis, °° boils in my breast. The lungs are not mentioned once, and the medulla [be- sides the quotation already given] only in this passage: certius accipiet damnum propiusve medullis, and nearer to his marrow. Disease of the nerves is referred to once only, but nervi is to be understood rather as signifying tendons and muscles than nerves. Cerebrum is used for brain or head: truncus illapsus cerebro felix cerebri, puti- dius multo cerebrum. Cerebrosus '° indicates a chol- eric fellow. Foul lust inflames the veins as well as the liver. Wine flows into the veins. The caxise of disease resides in the veins. To commit to the empty veins. There is no mention of the arteries (Celsus uses vente as a general term for both). Vetiter is used almost always for the organ of digestion, but in Epod. XVIII, 50, it signifies the womb, and in Epist. I, 15, 36 the abdomen, were ventrem, to brand the ab- domen. Stomachus also generally implies the organ of digestion, but once it is used to signify anger, once breast and once disposition. Guttur frangere ^ is to break one's neck; cervicem frangere is used in the same sense. 6!>Sat. I, 4, 89. '1 Epist. I, 15, 6. Epist. I, 15, 18. 66 Sat. II, 4, 26. '2 Od. II, 17, 27. Od. II, 2, 14. 6'Epod. Ill, 5. Sat. 1,9, 11. Sat. II, 4, 35. »« Epod. V, 95. M Sat. II, 3, 75. so Epod. Ill, 2. 69 Epod. II, 1.5. Sat. I, 5, 21. si Qd. II, 13, 6. '0 Epist. J, 10, 28. Sat. I, 2, 33.