_Papst_, Allg. med. Zeitung. Altenburg Jahrg. 1838. No. 60. pp.
950-952., where we have already at an earlier date developed our views
on this passage.
[403] Bk. III. ch. 8., τὰς διαῤῥοίας χρονίους ἔστιν ὅτε ξηραίνει τὰ
ἀφροδίσια, (On occasion indulgence in love dries up chronic diarrhœas).
[404] Bk. I. ch. 35., τῶν κεχρονισμένων διάῤῥοιαν τὰ ἀφροδίσια
ἐπιξηραίνουσι, (Indulgences in love dry up diarrhoea in the case of
chronic sufferers).
[405] In Epidem. bk. V. edit. Kühn, Vol. III. p. 574. it is related
that the nasal catarrh of Timochares disappeared (ἀφροδισιάσαντι
ἐξηράνθη—was dried up after he had indulged in love) after coition
(Paederastia? p. 209. Note 1.); and this is repeated again in bk. VII.
p. 680. Comp. _Palladius_, Schol. in Epidem. bk. VI. edit _Diez._,
Vol. II. pp. 143, 145. _Marsilius Cagnatus_ in _Gruter’s_ Lampas, Vol.
III. Pt. 2. p. 470.
[406] Progr. de sordidis et lascivis remediis antidysentericis
vitandis, (Graduation Essay on Avoiding filthy and licentious Remedies
as against Dysentery), pp. 10 sqq.
[407] _Suidas_ writes: _ὕπουλος_—ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν ἑλκῶν, τῶν ἐχόντων οὐλὰς
ὑγιεῖς ἐπιπολαίως, ἔνδοθεν δὲ σηπεδόνας πυώδεις.—_ὕπουλα γόνατα_ καὶ
_ὕπουλον πόδα_ καὶ _ὕπουλον χεῖρα_ καὶ _σῶμα_· τὸ φλεγμαῖνον διά
τινας πληγὰς καὶ ἑγγὺς τοῦ ἀφίστασθαι ὄν· Κρατῖνος· _ὕπουλα ἕλκη_·
τὰ κρυπτά.—_Hesychius_: ὕπουλα δὲ λέγεται τὰ μὴ φανερὰ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν
ἕλκη. _ὕπουλος_—applied to wounds, those that have healthy scars
on the surface, but underneath offensive putrefactions,—said of the
knees, or foot, or hand, or body; the part that is highly inflamed in
consequence of blows and is near breaking. Cratinus gives: _ὕπουλα_
wounds, i.e. hidden ones.—_Hesychius_: _ὕπουλα_ is said of wounds that
are not manifest to the eye.—The word ὕπαφρον (frothy beneath), which
is found in Hippocrates, De Arte, Vol. I. p. 17. K., instead of which
the MSS. also have ὑπόῤῥοον (liquid underneath), and _Schneider_ in
his Lexicon wished to read ὑπόφερον (bearing underneath), _Hesychius_
explains as τὸ μὴ φανερὸν κρύφιον καὶ _ὕπουλον_ (that which is not
visible, concealed and festering underneath).—Ought we to read for καὶ
ἴξιν perhaps κατ’ ἴξιν? Comp. _Erotion_, Glossary to Hippocrates, edit.
_Franz_, p. 322.
[408] A remarkable proof of the acquaintance of Italian scholars with
German Literary History. The Author dedicated this letter in the year
1823 to _Gruner_ who died in 1815, and forwarded him a copy with an
autograph inscription. Both are preserved in the University Library at
Jena.