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1 This word, or some other of similar import, is evidently required in this place, as Petit was the first to suggest. Ermerins does not hesitate to adopt it.
2 In the Askew ms. there is a lacuna here, occupying a whole page, but none at the end of the chapter, as in the printed editions.
3 ermerins erases τὸ μύρον, fancying that the ointment could not be suitable in this place. However, Actuarius recommends the Nardinum Unguentum expressly for Stomachics. Meth. Med. vi. 10.
4 If the text here be sound, the expression must be understood as a strange circumlocution for πετροσελίνου or σελίνου τοῦ ἐν πέτραις. See below, in the next chapter. It is worthy of remark, that this mode of circumlocution was much practised by the writers in the Ionic dialect. See Gregorius Corinthus, under περὶ Ἰάδος.
5 there can be little or no doubt that the words in the lacuna immediately adjoining σιτίων, were ἔμετος ἀπό. On the popular modes of producing easy vomiting in ancient times, see Paulus aegineta, t. i, pp. 52 — 54. On the use of emetics in the cure of Arthritis and Schiatica, see further, Ibid ... i. pp. 652 — 676, passim.
6 there is evidently something wanting in the text. Petit and Ermerins substitute ὠφελέει after ἄλλῳ. I cannot but think, however, that the more natural reading would be μὴ; meaning, that the remedies in certain cases proved beneficial, and in others not.
7 The common reading, ἄξιον ἔχον, is changed by Ermerins to ἀξιόνικον. I cannot see that this change is any improvement.
8 petit, Wigan, and Ermerins are all agreed, that the negative particle, although wanting in the mss., is here required by the sense.
The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian. Aretaeus. Francis Adams LL.D. Boston. Milford House Inc. 1972 (Republication of the 1856 edition).
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