[400] Edit. Kühn, Vol. III. p. 218., _μυθολογοῦσι_ δέ τινες ὅτι οἱ Ἀμαζονίδες τὸ ἄρσεν γένος το ἑωυτῶν αὐτίκα νήπιον ἐὸν ἐξαρθρέουσιν, αἱ μὲν κατὰ γούνατα, αἱ δὲ κατὰ τὰ ἰσχία, ὡς δῆθεν χωλὰ γίνοιτο καὶ μὴ ἐπιβουλεύει τὸ ἄῤῥεν γένος τῷ θήλει· χειρώναξιν ἄρα τούτοισι χρέονται, ὁκόσα ἢ σκυτίης ἔργα ἤ χαλκείης ἢ ἄλλο τι ἑδραῖον ἔργον· εἰ μὲν οὖν ἀληθέα ταῦτα ἐστί, ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ οἶδα. (Now some relate _the myth_ that the Amazons dislocate the male sex of their offspring while still quite young, some doing it at the knees, some at the hips, with the avowed object of laming them, and so the male sex does not rise in revolt against the female; then they employ them as handicraftsmen, for such tasks as shoe-making or brassworking or other sedentary occupations. _But whether this tale is true, I do not know_). _Gardeil_ also in a work that is not often met with in Germany, his “Traduction des œuvres médicales d’Hippocrate, sur le texte grec, d’après l’édition de Foes”. (Translation of the Medical Works of Hippocrates,—from the Greek text of Foesius’ edition.), Vol. I. Toulouse 1801. large 8vo., p. 162., says: “On pourroit induire d’un endroit du traité des articles, à la fin du numéro 38 (27), que ce qu’Hippocrate rapporte ici concernant les Scythes, et ce qu’il a dit ci-dessus, numéro 23, au sujet des Sarmates _ne lui étoit connu que par_ une tradition dont il n’étoit pas bien assuré,” (It might be inferred from a passage in the _Treatise on Joints_, at the end of no. 38 (27), that what Hippocrates relates here concerning the Scythians, and what he had said in a previous passage, no. 23, of the Sarmatians, _was known to him only by a tradition, the authenticity of which he was not well assured of_). [401] “Censura Librorum Hippocraticorum”, (Criticism of the Works of Hippocrates), p. 181. [402] Epidem., bk. VII. end, edit. Kühn, Vol. III. p. 705. Comp. _Papst_, Allg. med. Zeitung. Altenburg Jahrg. 1838. No. 60. pp. 950-952., where we have already at an earlier date developed our views on this passage. [403] Bk. III. ch. 8., τὰς διαῤῥοίας χρονίους ἔστιν ὅτε ξηραίνει τὰ ἀφροδίσια, (On occasion indulgence in love dries up chronic diarrhœas). [404] Bk. I. ch. 35., τῶν κεχρονισμένων διάῤῥοιαν τὰ ἀφροδίσια ἐπιξηραίνουσι, (Indulgences in love dry up diarrhoea in the case of chronic sufferers). [405] In Epidem. bk. V. edit. Kühn, Vol. III. p. 574. it is related that the nasal catarrh of Timochares disappeared (ἀφροδισιάσαντι ἐξηράνθη—was dried up after he had indulged in love) after coition (Paederastia? p. 209. Note 1.); and this is repeated again in bk. VII. p. 680. Comp. _Palladius_, Schol. in Epidem. bk. VI. edit _Diez._, Vol. II. pp. 143, 145. _Marsilius Cagnatus_ in _Gruter’s_ Lampas, Vol. III. Pt. 2. p. 470. [406] Progr. de sordidis et lascivis remediis antidysentericis vitandis, (Graduation Essay on Avoiding filthy and licentious Remedies as against Dysentery), pp. 10 sqq.