Note 626 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

The text of this last sentence is in an unsettled state. The following would be a translation of it as it stands in the Basle edition of Galen’s Works: “Of all the cases described under this constitution, those alone which were of a phthisical character proved fatal. But they (the phthisical affections?) did not supervene upon the other fevers.” Provided this be the true meaning of the passage, it would merit great attention, as seeming to contain a declaration that intermittent fevers superinduced an immunity to phthisis. I need not say that this supposed fact has been exciting a great deal of interest lately in the profession, more especially in France.