Note 725 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

This is an example of one of those protracted fevers of an intermittent type, which, as I have been informed by an intelligent physician who practiced for several years in the Ionian Islands, are so common in the climate of Greece. There is not much of any particular value in Galen’s Commentary on this case. He informs us that one of the older commentators absurdly maintained the opinion that the country of this patient was given because, according to Asclepiades, the inhabitants of Paros were most especially benefited by bleeding. But, as Galen says, this remark is particularly out of place here, since no mention of venesection occurs in the report. Galen, and after him Foës, have given very lengthy and elaborate disquisitions on the nature of oily urine. The result is, that it is an unfavorable, but not necessarily a fatal, character. It is minutely described by the later authorities on urology, namely, Theophilus and Actuarius. See also the Commentary on Paulus Ægineta, Book II., 14, Sydenham Society’s edition.