_Paulus Aegineta._--Paulus Aegineta[46] was born in the Island of Aegina, not far from Athens, in the early part of the seventh century A. D., and practiced medicine in Alexandria, Egypt. He is known to us as the author of a compend of medicine which was very popular during a long period of time, especially among the Arabs, who, as early as two hundred years after his death, translated his work from the Greek into their own language. At a still later period it was also translated into Latin, the two best versions in this language which we now possess being those of Guintherus Andernacus (Paris, 1532) and of J. Cornarius (Basel, 1556). There is also an English translation by F. Adams (“The Seven Books of Paulus Aegineta,” London, 1845–1847), which is favorably spoken of by Neuburger, and which is apparently at the present time the only existing version of the work of Paulus of Aegina in a modern European language; for the French translation by René Briau (“_La Chirurgie de Paul d’Égine_,” Paris, 1855) comprises only Book VI. The contents of the entire work are as follows: _Book I._--Dietetics of Pregnant Women and of Children; Children’s Diseases; Massage, Gymnastics, Sexual Hygiene, Bathing, etc.; _Book II._--General Pathology, the Doctrine of Fevers, Semeiology; _Book III._--Diseases of the Hair, Diseases of the Brain and Nerves, Diseases of the Eyes, Ears, Nose, Mouth, Teeth and Face; _Book IV._--Leprosy, Skin Diseases, Inflammations, Swellings, Tumors, Wounds, Ulcers, Fistulae, Hemorrhage, Worms, Affections of the Joints, etc.; _Book V._--Toxicology; _Book VI._--Surgery; _Book VII._--Materia Medica.