Note 697 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

Galen’s remarks on the circumstances of this case are sufficiently to the purpose, but there is nothing very striking in them. He states that the abortion may have been occasioned either by external causes—such as the application of pessaries for this purpose, and the like—or internal, such as hemorrhage from the neck of the uterus. and so forth. As in the former case, he pronounces the last word (phrenitis) to be an addition to the text, as Hippocrates never enters upon the diagnosis of diseases, as is done in the work On Diseases. I suppose he means that our author’s real works are all founded on Prognosis; whereas the other, being derived from the Cnidian school, is founded on Diagnosis. See our observations on this subject in the Preliminary Discourse, and the Argument to the Prognostics.