ae INTRODUCTION. 
ment in general is not immethodical, though some 
few lines seem misplaced. 
In the versification, the quantity of syllables, and 
even the accent, are frequently disregarded. - Many 
lines are without rhyme, such as some which are 
transcribed from Macer. The rhyme is usually 
correct, though sometimes only the final vowels 
correspond, and the accent, in reading, must be 
transferred to the last syllable. Usually the ends 
of two or more lines rhyme together, sometimes the 
middle with the end, at others both the middle and 
next. 
V. COMMENTATORS, AND PRINCIPAL PRINTED 
A poem upon a subject so generally interesting, free 
from technical abstruseness, and conveyed in a pleas 
ing and popular form, was soon circulated throughout 
Europe. It became a manual for those who were 
not regularly initiated into medical science, it wa 
the institute of the student, and the text-book for 
the learned professors. Copies were multiplied, and 
upon the invention of printing it was committed 
the press as early as the year 1490, It was repeat: 
end of one line with the corresponding parts of the 
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