LIST OF DISEASES 



Aposlema. — Greek for abscess. 



Argema. — A small white ulcer, 

 partl y on tlie comea, partly on 

 the sclerotic coat of the eye. 



Articularius morbus. — ^This in 

 XXII 34 is joined to poda- 

 gricus, and so means probably 

 not gout but arthritis. 



Asthma. — Apparently only 

 XXVI 34. See also XXV 82.^ 



Atrophus.—" Wasting away," 

 of all such conditions, of which 

 phthisis is one. 



Boa. — " A disease when the 

 body is red with pimples," 

 XXIV 53. See also XXVI 

 120. An exanthem not cer- 

 tainly identified. Shingles is 

 localised. It cannot be, as 

 Hardouin thought, measles, 

 because that disease seems to 

 havo been first described by 

 Rhazes. 



Cachecta. — A patient who is in a 

 very bad state of health ; some- 

 times a " consumptive " patient 

 is meant. 



Cacoethes. — A Greek adjective 

 appHed to sores that are very 

 difificult or impossible to cure ; 

 ' ' maUgnant ' ' is the nearest,but 

 not quite exact, equivalent. 



Calculus. — Stone or gravel in 

 the bladder. 



Caligo. — Dimness of the eyes, 

 hard to distinguish from 

 nuhecula (film) and caligatio 

 (mistiness). 



Carbunculus. — In XXVI 5, 6 

 seems certainly to be anthrax, 

 and Pnny's description re- 

 serables that of Celsus V 28, 1. 

 The word was, however, used 

 of minor affections ; for 

 example, carhunculus oculi is 

 a styo, and it is often used of 

 a bad abscess. 



Carcinoma. — Superficial malig- 

 nant disease, severe forras of 

 which are called cacoethe. 

 It soems impossible to dis- 

 tinguish, at least in Pliny, 

 carcinoma from ulcera cacoethe, 

 phagedaena and gangraena. 



Cardiacus. — The adjective refers 

 to either disease or patient. 

 Sometimes a siraple ailment, 

 heartburn, is referred to, 

 at other times a serious 

 complaint, said by W. G. 

 Spencer on Celsus III 19 to 

 be a kind of syncope. In fact 

 the reforence may be to any 

 ailment supposed to be con- 

 nected with the heart. 



Cephalaea. — Aretaeus (III 2) 

 calls this a severe, chronic 

 headache, and says that there 

 are iSeai /xuptat- Persistent 

 neuralgia, except when it 

 means malarial headache, must 

 be the complaint referred to. 



Cerium. — Described by W. G. 

 Spencer on Celsus V 28, 13 

 as a follicular abscess among 

 hair. Its appearance — Kijptov 

 means " honeycomb " — en- 

 ables us to distinguish it from 

 panus ; it was also often more 

 severe. 



Chiragra. — Gout or gouty pains 

 in the hands. But see 

 podagra. 



Cholera. — Perhaps never Asiatic 

 cholera, but cholera nostras 

 and possibly certain types of 

 dysentery and severe diar- 

 rhooa. The word is derived 

 from X°^V' "bile." 



Clavus. — Wart, corn or callus. 



Coeliacus morbus. — W. G. 

 Spencer on Celsus IV 19, 1 

 (last note) says that the 

 author appears to be de- 



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