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1 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.
2 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.
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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