Note 683 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

Galen, in his Commentary, communicates a singular notion which one of the earlier commentators maintained respecting the name of the place where this patient was laid, that is to say, that this new wall, having been recently washed with quicklime, had been the cause of this patient’s illness. Galen, however, rejects this paltry conceit. He says on his own authority, that there being three distinct classes of fever, namely, the ephemeral, the hectic, and those connected with putrid humors, the present case belongs to the last of these.