Note 703 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

The carbuncle (anthrax), Galen says, is always dangerous, and the product of bad humors. See Paulus Ægineta, Vol. II., pp. 78, 79. Galen, in his excellent work On the Difference of Fevers, writes thus: “In constitutions of the year, similar to those which Hippocrates describes as taking place in Cranon (See Ep. ii.). I have known cases of anthrax prevailing epidemically in no few numbers, the formation and other symptoms of which were exactly as described by him.” (Tom. vii., p. 293; ed. Kühn.)