Note 435 — THIRD SECTION. Relation of the Physician to Diseases consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs. (continued 2)

Celsus, bk. VI. ch. 8., bk. VII. ch. 11. Galen, Synops. med. sec. loc. bk. III. ch. 3. (XII. 678.). Oribasius, De loc. affect. Vol. IV. chs. 45, 46. Aëtius, Tetrab. II. serm. 2. chs. 90, 91, 93. Paulus Aegineta bk. III. ch. 23. Alexander of Tralles bk. III. ch. 8. Caelius Aurelianus morb. chron. bk. II. ch. 1. Actuarius, Method. med. bk. II. ch. 8., bk. VI. ch. 4. Nonnus, Epit. ch. 93. Pollux, Onomast. bk. IV. ch. 25. sect. 204. The remark of Galen, Isagog. ch. 20. (XIV. p. 792.), is interesting that falling way of the nose from the palate gives sufferers an apelike look, ἀλλὰ κἂν ἐξ ὑπερώας μεσίζῃ ἡ ῥὶς, ὥς φησι, σιμοῦνται ἀθεραπεύτως,—(but if the nose separates from the palate, they get flat-nosed, as they say, like monkeys,—incurable.) A special nasal syringe, rhynenchytes, is mentioned by Caelius Aurelianus, Chron. bk. I. ch. 4., bk. III. ch. 2. Comp. Calmasius, Ad Solin p. 274.