Note (27) — BOOK I.

27. The body is rendered humid.) Lommius asserts the copies to be every one corrupted in this place. From the moisteners he strikes out the following,—continuing awake, long and brisk walking, morning exercise without eating after it,—as unworthy of our author. And for the same reason, in the list of dryers, inserts watching and unction, without bathing in cold water. This I thought proper to mention in a note, but did not chuse to take so great liberties with the text against the authority of all the other copies, but leave it to the judgment of the learned reader, though I rather incline to the alteration proposed. Vide Lomm. Comment. de Sanitat. tuend. p. 218 and 219.