Note 687 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

Here again Galen mentions the absurd notion of Sabinus the commentator, that this man’s disease was occasioned by the locality in which he was laid. Galen, on the other hand, thinks it likely that the patient was conveyed to the garden as being a favorable situation for a person ill of fever. He further alludes to this case in the Second Book of his work On Critical Days.