56 INTRODUCTION. 
the description of a good physicsan®, The circum- 
stances of cases should be inquired into™. Various 
sorts of madness are described *. 
In book the fourth, is a dissertation on the virtues 
of the number four ; and an apology that the neces 
sity of metre had compelled him to distort many 
Greek terms. A knotty question is discussed, why 
pills are always given in an odd number™. Under 
opiates he satirizes with some humour one Rigor 
dus, an empiric, 
Qui requiem monachis in acutis febribus offert, 
Et requiem facit «ternam ®, 
The description of a monstrous child, censure of 
Montpelier™, prudential hints to physicians, artifices 
to be used, medicines to be changed in colour and 
form, and disguised, as patients love variety, 
despise cheap medicines. In the prologus finalis, he 
gives good advice to young practitioners about 
and that they should bleed the purses of the rich t0 
aid the poor. He advises them not to make aly 
® Ver. 564. p. 597. 
® Ver. 848. p. 610, and lib. iy. ver, 309. p. 639. 
* Ver. 866. p. 610. * Lib. iv, ver. 129, p. 632+ 
® Ver. 386, p- 646 
% Ver. 564. p. 654, and ver. 639. p. 657. 
% Ver. 1119. p. 675, 9 Ver. 1049, p. 687. 
