XXVI PREFACE. 



this work. Larsfe extracts and selections are made 

 from the Greek writers. It is not to be expected that 

 many will soon travel over the field of research which 

 the present edition required, and it will be but fair to 

 those who are examining the facts, to present them with, 

 at least one passage as a specimen. 



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 olvov Xvtfivcnv. oti Se /cat iiacjiOeipovTei; Tjve? rpo(priv Xv'CiOvutv ruv 

 yivuaKOfjiiveov io-Ti. kou piyuaravTeq Ze itoXXo) Xv^oticrjy. tjOteTov f^ev ovv 

 evp'/i<ro[A€v ainapKii; ia/xa tSv Sta ttX^So^ vj S^gtv Xv^ovrav. OepyMciacv 

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 ^ixia(; ZeTrai Kiviaeuq. toZto Se o TnapiAoi; ipyaX^eTui. tovi; 8e iiu 

 K€i/uer€i XvyfAOvq ovk Icctooi iirccpjj.oq. AtZovcci Se t&^j Xv'^ova'iv Tir^yavov 

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Ttiveiv S' o^vKodrov, k.t.X. Paulus -^gin. lib. ii. cap. 56. 



Translation. 

 Of hiccupings. Hiccup comes on either by reason of re- 

 pletion, or of emptiness, or of austere juices biting upon tlie 

 stomach, and when these are vomited forth it ceases. Many 

 also by only taking the medicine called " by the three 

 " peppers," if immediately on that they swallow wine, hiccup. 

 It is also a recognized fact, that some turning their food sour, 

 hiccup ; and many also hiccup after shivering. We shall find 

 then that a vomit is a sufficient cure for those who liiccui^ 

 from repletion or irritation ; and the application of warmth 

 for those that do so from chill. But when the hiccup comes 

 on by fulness of moistures, it needs a violent evacuation ; 

 and this sneezing produces ; but sneezing does not cure the 

 hiccups which depend on emptiness. Give the sufferer from 

 hiccup rue with wine, or nitre in sweetened wine, or seseli, or 

 carrot, or cummin, or ginger, or calamintha, or Keltic valerian. 

 These arc proper for the cases in which food turns sour on 

 the stomach, or for chill, or for emptiness. But for those that 

 suffi^r by repletion Avith cold and viscid humours, give cas- 

 toreum, three obols worth, and to drink some oxymel, etc. 



