LIST OF DISEASES 



Perfrictio. — Sometimes a severe 

 chill. 



Peripleumonicus. — A sufferer 

 from pneumonia. 



Pemio . — Chilblain . 



Peetilentia. — Plague ; a term as 

 vague as the English, but 

 usually bubonic. 



Phagedaena. — Gangrene, hard to 

 distinguish from gangraena. 

 In XXVI 100 an abnormal 

 diseased appetite. 



Phlegmon. — InfJammation be- 

 neath the skin. 



Phreniticus, — Properly a sufferer 

 from phrenitis or phrenesi^, 

 pemicious malaria accom- 

 panied by raving. It also 

 refers to the sjanptom when 

 not caused by malaria, for 

 in post-Hippocratic medical 

 works it often seems equi- 

 valent to "brain fever." Per- 

 haps sometimes meningitis. 



Phthiriasis. — Phthiriasis, skin 

 dLsease caused by lice. 



Phthisis. — Pulmonary consump- 

 tion. 



Pituita. — Excessive mucus, in 

 any part of the bodj'. 



Pleuriticus. — A sufferer from 

 pleurisy. 



Plumbitm in XXV 155, points to 

 the leaden bluish colour of 

 certain eye diseases. Serenus 

 XrV 33 : si vero horrendum 

 ducent glaucomata plumbum. 



Podagra. — Gout or gouty pains 

 in the foot. Sometimes per- 

 haps the result of lead 

 poisoning. See Spencer's 

 Celsus 1 464. Pliny (XXVI 

 100) saj'S that the disease 

 was on the increase in his day. 

 The word (often with chiragra) 

 refers sometimes to pains 

 caused by senile degeneration. 



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Porrigo. — Dandruff or scurf (on 

 hairy parts). 



Prurigo and pruritus. — Itch ; the 

 words can scarcely be dis- 

 criminated, although perhaps 

 pruritus tends to be used of 

 the symptom, prurigo of the 

 infection. 



Psora. — Several skin diseases 

 are included under this term 

 among which are itch and 

 perhaps leprosy. 



Pterygium. — An inflammatory 

 swelling at the inner angle of 

 the lower eyelid ; another 

 name for it is unguis. It also 

 means a whitlow. 



Pusula. — Pustule or blister. 



Quartana. — Quartan ague, or 

 malaria occurring after inter- 

 vals of two days. It was 

 reckoned the mildest form of 

 the disease. 



Ramex. — Hernia. 



Begius morbus. — Jaundice. 



Rhagades. — Chaps. 



Rh eumatismus . — Catarrb, 

 whether of the nose, throat 

 or stomach. 



Rosio. — Gnawing pain in the 

 chest or bowels. 



Rupta. — Tom muscles etc. 



Scabies. — Xot our scabies, which 

 is caused by the itch mite, 

 but described by Celsus (V 

 28, 16) as a hardening of the 

 skin. which grows mddy and 

 bursts into pustules with 

 itching ulceration. It in- 

 cludes many t\-pes of eczema. 

 Scabies of the bladder, a dis- 

 ease of which the sjTnptom was 

 scaly concretions in the urine. 



Scabritia. — Diseased roughness 

 of fingers, nails, eyes, etc. 



Scelotyrbe. — Lameness of the 

 knee or ankle. 



