Note 409 — ON AIRS, WATERS, AND PLACES.

It is worthy of remark that Celsus states just the reverse with regard to the practice of women laboring under the stone; he says: “Feminæ vero oras naturalium suorum manibus admotis scabere crebro coguntur.” (ii., 7.) Are we to suppose that he followed a different reading? Considering how well he shows himself acquainted with the works of Hippocrates, it cannot be thought that he had overlooked this passage.