180 NOTES TO THE 
_ The stomach is equally hard of digestion, but the extremities 
that is the bottom, and orifice, as being more fleshy, are more 
digestible. 
In some printed editions, 
Sic quoque ventriculus, tamen exteriora probantur. 
. 149. Semen, called marathrum, papaOpov. Expels wind, 
Vv Noy. The place emitting for the thing emitted. 
2. Spodium, according to Avicenna, was the roots of 
canes or reeds burnt, for which burnt bones were sometimes 
ase? tuted. 
1. 158. Three triads of the qualities of bodies from the taste. 
Hot: salt, bitter, pungent. Cold: sour, rough, astringent. In- 
termediate or temperate: fat, insipid, sweet. Ponticus is astrin- 
gent, as the taste of acorns, etc. 4 pungendo, or from radix 
— thubarb. 
1.161. Vippa, or vipa, a wine-sop, compounded of vinum 
and sai Offa is a sop in broth, etc 
1. 162. minus est implet, minuit ead abun 
By digesting Pie it nourishes the body ; “i pica super- 
fluous and vitious humours it expels them. A MS. pas lumen, 
comfortat quod minus est, adipem dat. 
1. 165. Hippocras. 
In Aphorism, Sect. ii. Aph. 50, Ta ex mod\ov xpovou 
Evynbea, kyv ep xetpw, rwv atvynbewy rooov evoyreay ewe, 
and De Victus Ratione in Morb. acut. lib. ii, Aphor. 21, 22. 
Meta medicine, the object, scopus. 5 
1, 172. Dizerunt, 
Th + 1 ree 3 a Tica ol 
Macer, N°. 70. 
