NOTES 



TO THE 



INTRODUCTORY LECTURE. 



JSTote 1. 



See the Iliad, book 5, verses 65 and 304. Book 11, verse 

 574 : other passages might be referred to. 



JV*ofe 2. 



Galen was a native of Pergamiis in Lesser Asia ; and af- 

 ter travelling wherever instruction was to be obtained, settled 

 at Rome. Althongh a pupil of the Alexandria school, he 

 did not blindly adopt its dogmas. On the contrary, he thought 

 and acted for himself; as a proof of which it may be men- 

 tioned, that he disproved by a simple and obvious experi- 

 ment, the opinion it had long entertained and taught, (viz. 

 that the arteries carried air,) by laying bare a branch of one 

 of them, in a living animal, and dividing it between two li- 

 gatures. 



JVofc o. 



This event, it is said, took place in the year 640 of Christ, 

 and that for six months the Turks heated their numerous 

 baths by the MSS collections of one thousand years. The 

 fact is not credited by M. Renaudot or Gibbon. The writer 

 upon whose authority it is given, is Abul Pharagius, " and 

 the solitary report of a stranger, who wrote at the end of 

 600 years, on the confines of Media, is overbalanced by the 

 silence of two annalists of a more early date, both christians, 

 both natives of Egypt, and the most ancient of whom, Eu- 

 tychius, has amply described the conquest of Alexandria." 

 Gibbon's Decline, &c. chap. 51. Eutychius lived between 



