Note (10) — BOOK I.

10. Praecordia.) This word frequently occurs in Celsus; and he seems to use it in two senses: 1st, For the cavity of the thorax, as lib. 4. c. 1. At sub corde atque pulmone transversum ex valida membrana est septum, quod è praecordiis uterum diducit. 2dly, For the hypochondria; for which see several passages in the first eight chapters of the second book, where he considers the symptoms of distempers from the external appearance of the præcordia; by which word, in those passages, he translates the Greek term ὑποχονδρίον in Hippocrates; the derivation of which demonstrates it to be below the Cartilago Xiphoides.