Note 430 — THIRD SECTION. Relation of the Physician to Diseases consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.

Celsus, bk. V. ch. 28. Comp. Galen, Defin. med. (XIX. p. 444.). Oribasius, Synops. VII. ch. 39., Collect. bk. XLV. ch. 12., bk. L. ch. 7. (in Mai loco cit. p. 43, p. 186). Aëtius, Tetrab. IV. serm. 2. ch. 3., serm. 4. ch. 105. Paulus Aegineta, bk. III. ch. 59., bk. VI. chs. 58, 71. Nonnus, Epit. ch. 197. Pollux, Onomast. bk. IV. ch. 25. sect. 194., θύμος, ὐπέρυθρος ἔκφυσις, τραχεῖα, ἔναιμος, οὐ δυσαφαίρετος, μάλιστα περὶ αἰδοῖα καὶ δακτύλιον καὶ παραμήρια· ἔστὶ δ’ὅτε καὶ ἐπὶ προσώπῳ. (θύμος,—thymus, a reddish outgrowth, rough, suffused with blood, not difficult to remove, occurring chiefly on the genital organs and anus and insides of the thighs; but sometimes on the face too). Marcellus, ch. 33. Myrepsus, XXXVIII. ch. 157.