[424] _Antiquitates Neomagenses, sive Notitia rarissimarum rerum Antiquariarum_, etc. (1678), pp. 97, 99. When describing these two medicine-stamps (which are interesting as having been the first rediscovered in modern times), Schmidt ingenuously states:—“De illis quid sentiam, non facile dixerim, sæpe mecum cogito, quid sibi illa velint. Ego tamen _nihil_ adhuc affirmare audeo.”—P. 98. Hugo Grotius, in his _Respublica Hollandiæ_ (1630), speaks of Schmidt as “antiquitatum omnium cultor summus, cujus commentarium de Noviomagi oppidi (_Nymegen_) antiquitate avidissime expectamus.”—P. 123. [425] _Miscellanea Eruditæ Antiquitatis_ (1685), pp. 236-238. [426] “Smetius vir eruditus nobis exhibet lapides duos virides quadratos, in margine scriptos, quarum usum se ignorare fatetur. Ego vero puto fuisse opercula pyxidum in quibus unguenta, olea, atque collyria reservabant Pharmacopolae.”—Spon, in his _Miscellanea Eruditæ Antiquitatis_, p. 236. [427] Haym’s _Tesoro-Brittanico_ (1720), vol. ii. Letter in Preface. [428] Caylus’ _Recueil Antiquites_ (1761), vol. i. p. 225. Count Caylus states (p. 226) that the Abbé Le Bœuf, in 1729, expressed the following opinion in relation to one of these Roman stones that was shown him:—“La regarda comme un moule qui servoit à marquer sur la cire les drogues d’un Médecin Romain, on comme une formule de recette pour la confection d’un médicament.” See also vol. vii. (1767), p. 261. [429] _Antiquitatis Medicæ Selectæ._ Jena, 1772. [430] _Christophori Saxii Epistola de Veteris Medici Ocularii Gemma Sphragide, prope Trajectum ad Mosam eruta._ 1774. [431] _Archæologia; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity_, vol. ix. (1789), p. 227. [432] _Dissertation sur l’Inscription Grecque_ ΙΑϹΟΝΟϹ ΛΥΚΙΟΝ. Paris, 1826. [433] _Cinq Cachets Inedits de Médecins-Oculistes Romains._ Paris, 1845. To M. Sichel, one of the most learned of living physicians, I am indebted for various valuable suggestions in collecting the materials for the present essay. [434] _Observations sur les Cachets des Médecins-Oculistes Anciens, à-propos de Cinq Pierres Sigillaires inedites._ Paris, 1846. [435] _Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie_, tom. viii. p. 575. (1846). Notice sur un Cachet d’Oculiste Romain trouvé à Amiens. [436] The three found in Italy have all been discovered in the more northern parts of that kingdom,—viz. the first at Genoa, the second at Sienna, and the third at Verona. See notices of them in Spon’s _Miscellanea Eruditæ Antiquitatis_, p. 237; Muratori’s _Thesaurus Inscriptionum_, D. viii. 4; and Maffei’s _Museum Veronense_, p. 135. [437] Kühn’s Edit. of Galen, vol. xiv. pp. 766-777.