Note (20) — BOOK VI. (continued 2)

20. Consumed either by stronger medicines, &c.) This is agreeable to the reading of the older editions—Si hac ratione non tollitur: vel medicamentis vehementioribus, vel ferro adurendum est.—Linden and Almeloveen have it thus: Si hac ratione non tollitur, vel aliis medicamentis similibus, vel vehementioribus: ferro adurendum est. That is, ‘If it is not removed by this method, or like medicines, or stronger, it must be burnt by the actual cautery.’ Which, Morgagni[ JN ] justly observes, besides the incongruity of recommending similar medicines after the first have failed, alters the sense much for the worse.