Note (23) — BOOK III.

23. Inject by way of clyster.) Celsus here shews that he knew it was possible to nourish by clysters, and that it was sometimes practised—Cælius Aurelianus mentions the use of clysters in this disorder, particularly acrid ones, as prescribed by the followers of Serapion, Heraclides, and Herophilus, and also by Asclepiades and Themison. But he does not give the least hint, as if any of these authors directed an injection with a view to nourishment, but only to make a derivation of the humour from the skin to the belly. Cæl. Aurelian. de Acut. Morb. lib. ii. cap. 38.