Note 187 — Second Part. (continued 2)
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Martial, Bk. VI. Epigr. 37.,
O quanta scabie miser laborat! Culum non habet, est tamen cinaedus.
(How sad a scurvy (scabies) does the wretch groan under! Bottom all gone; and yet he is a cinaedus!)
Bk. XI. Epigr. 8.,
Penelopae licet esse tibi sub principe Nerva Sed prohibet scabies ingeniumque vetus.
(You may be a Penelope under Nerva as Emperor; only that scurvy hinders you and inveterate viciousness). The mala scabies (horrid scurvy) from Horace, Ars Poet. 453., is familiar; as well as the statement of Justin (Hist. XXXVI. 2.) to the effect that the Jews were driven out of Egypt on account of Scabies and Vitiligo (Tetter), that the Egyptians might not be infected by them. Comp. Michaelis, “Mosaisches Recht”, (Mosaic Law) IV. 209. The infectious nature of psora is declared also by Aristotle, Problem. VII. 8. Galen, De puls. diff., IV. 1. The transition of mentagra into psora has been already mentioned.