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THE
SYDENHAM SOCIETY
INSTITUTED
MDCCCXLIII
SYDENHAM
LONDON
MDCCCXLIV.
THE
SEVEN BOOKS
OF
PAULUS ÆGINETA.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.
WITH
A COMMENTARY
EMBRACING A COMPLETE VIEW OF THE KNOWLEDGE
POSSESSED BY THE
GREEKS, ROMANS, AND ARABIANS
ON
ALL SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH MEDICINE AND SURGERY.
BY FRANCIS ADAMS.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON
PRINTED FOR THE SYDENHAM SOCIETY
MDCCCXLIV.
“MULTUM EGERUNT QUI ANTE NOS FUERUNT, SED NON PEREGERUNT. SUSPICIENDITAMEN SUNT, ET RITU DEORUM COLENDI.”
(SENECA, EPIST. LXIV.)
PRINTED BY C. AND J. ADLARD,
BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.
Although in the Preface which immediately follows, andwhich is reprinted with slight alterations from the former edition,I have entered, at some length, upon the subject of the followingtranslation, I felt it necessary, in the circumstances under whichmy work now appears, to premise a few additional remarks.
It is now many years since I undertook and completed atranslation of the whole works of Paulus Ægineta. In the year1834 I published the first three books, with a commentary,having for its object to embody the most important opinions ofthe Greek, Roman, and Arabian writers, on all subjects treatedof by the original author. Notwithstanding the very favorablereception which that volume obtained from many of the mosteminent members of the medical profession, as well as fromscholars both at home and abroad, I was under the necessity—fromcircumstances which I need not here detail—of deviatingfrom my original intention of completing the publication of thework in the same form and at my own risk. After an intervalof ten years the proposition was made to me by the Council ofthe Sydenham Society to prepare a new edition of the volumealready published, and to complete the remaining two on thesame general plan. This proposition was too gratifying to myfeelings not to be immediately assented to; and it is with unfeignedsatisfaction that I have now the honour to submit the