Note (12) — BOOK III.

12. Former regimen strictly.) After the words, to which these answer in the original, there follows in Linden and Almeloveen, Et aqua tantummodo calida, si sitis est, uti: ac tum ita nono die balneo frigus prævenire, et. Which must appear manifestly corrupt; for this would be making the paroxysm of a quartan fever return after one day’s interval: so that though the other words were retained, yet nono should be undoubtedly changed into decimo. But I have chosen rather to follow the reading of Pinzi and Junta, which is perfectly consonant with the context. Septimo die balneo frigus prævenire, abstinere, continere se debet; si febris redierit, ducere alvum; ubi ex eo corpus conquieverit, inunctione vehementer perfricari, eodem modo sumere cibum et vinum, biduo proximo se abstinere, frictione servata. Decimo die rursus balneum experiri, &c. This makes the directions which follow nono die, to belong to the seventh; and decimo die for decimo tertio die still preserves the regular succession of the fits. This reading is confirmed by what our author adds in the next paragraph, where he prescribes a new method to be pursued, if the fever should return upon the thirteenth day. ‘Wherefore, if the distemper shall continue upon the thirteenth day, the bath must neither be tried before the fever nor after it, &c.’ For if we allow the reading of Linden, &c. decimo tertio die, in the first paragraph, he orders bathing on this day; and in the next he absolutely forbids it.