ARCHÆOLOGICAL ESSAYS BY THE LATE SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON, BART. M.D., D.C.L. ONE OF HER MAJESTY’S PHYSICIANS FOR SCOTLAND, AND PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AND MIDWIFERY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH EDITED BY JOHN STUART, LL.D. SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND VOL. II. EDINBURGH EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS PUBLISHERS TO THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES MDCCCLXXII _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. PAGE I. ON LEPROSY AND LEPER HOSPITALS IN SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND 1 Communication read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, 3d March 1841, and printed in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (vol. lvi. p. 301; vol. lvii. p. 121). [Additional Notes by Joseph Robertson, LL.D.] II. NOTES ON SOME ANCIENT GREEK MEDICAL VASES FOR CONTAINING LYKION; AND ON THE MODERN USE OF THE SAME DRUG IN INDIA 185 Read to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 26th February 1852. Proc. vol. i. p. 47. Reprinted separately in 1856, and “Inscribed to Dr. Sichel of Paris.” Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox. III. WAS THE ROMAN ARMY PROVIDED WITH MEDICAL OFFICERS? 197 Printed as a Pamphlet, at Edinburgh, 1856 (Sutherland and Knox), and “Inscribed to James Pillans, Esq., F.R.S.E., Professor of Humanity in the University of Edinburgh, etc. etc., as a Small Tribute of sincere Esteem from an Old and Attached Pupil.” _With One Plate._ IV. NOTICES OF ANCIENT ROMAN MEDICINE-STAMPS, ETC., FOUND IN GREAT BRITAIN 229 Communicated to the Monthly Journal of Medical Science, January, March, and April 1851. _With Four Plates._ V. ANTIQUARIAN NOTICES OF SYPHILIS IN SCOTLAND 301 Communicated to the Epidemiological Society of London, 1862. Trans. vol. i. part ii. Reprinted privately at Edinburgh (Edmonston and Douglas), “Inscribed to the most learned Physician of Modern Times, James Copland, Esq., M.D., Author of the Dictionary of Practical Medicine.” ON LEPROSY AND LEPER HOSPITALS IN SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND.[1] PART I. Few subjects in pathology are more curious, and at the same time more obscure, than the changes which, in the course of ages, have taken place in the diseases incident either to the human race at large, or to particular divisions and communities of it.