[280] _Galen_, Meth. med., bk. XIII. ch. 5. p. 881., οὕτως οὖν καὶ δι’ ἕλκος ἐν δακτύλῳ γινόμενον ἤτοι ποδὸς ἢ χειρὸς οἱ κατὰ τὸν βουβῶνα καὶ τὴν μασχάλην ἀδένες ἐξαίρονταί τε καὶ φλεγμαίνουσι, τοῦ καταῤῥέοντος ἐπ’ ἄκρον τὸν κῶλον αἵματος ἀπολαβόντες πρῶτοι· καὶ κατὰ τράχηλον δὲ καὶ παρ’ ὦτα πολλάκις ἐξῄρθησαν ἀδένες, ἑλκῶν γενομένων ἤτοι κατὰ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἢ τὸν τράχηλον ἤ τι τῶν πλησίων μορίων· ὀνομάζουσι δὲ τοὺς οὕτως ἐξαρθέντας ἀδένας βουβῶνας. (Thus then in consequence of an ulcer that has formed in a finger or toe the glands of the groin and the arm-pit become swollen and inflamed, having been the first to receive back the blood that flows down to the extremity of the limb. Moreover on the neck and about the ears glands are frequently swollen, when ulcers have been set up in the head or neck or any of the neighbouring parts. And glands swollen up in this way are known as buboes). [281] Hippocratic Oath, in _Hippocrates_, Vol. I. p. 2., ἃ δ’ ἂν ἐν θεραπείῃ ἢ ἴδω ἢ ἀκούσω, ἢ καὶ ἄνευ θεραπείης, κατὰ βίον ἀνθρώπων, ἃ μὴ χρή ποτε ἐκκαλέεσθαι ἔξω, σιγήσομαι, ἄῤῥητα ἡγεύμενος εἶναι τὰ τοιαῦτα. (and whatsoever I may see or hear in my practice, or even apart from practice, connected with men’s life, what ought not in any case to be revealed, this I will say nought of, holding such secrets inviolable). [282] _Hippocrates_, De locis in homine, edit. Kühn Vol. II. p. 139. [283] _Galen_, Method. medendi bk. IV. ch. 2., edit. Kühn Vol. X. p. 238. [284] _Oppenheim_, loco citato p. 123. The Eastern Christian woman in question actually assured Niebuhr herself that she would never agree to the knife being applied to her husband’s genitals, and yet in this case it was merely a question of dividing an over short _frenulum_. _Michaelis_, “Mosaisches Recht”, (Mosaic Law), Vol. IV. p. 3. [285] Examples of such are at any rate plentiful in _Martial_, e. g. bk. XI. Epigr. 75., Curandum penem commisit Bacchara Graecus Rivali medico: Bacchara Gallus erit. (Bacchara entrusted the cure of his member to a rival doctor: Bacchara was a Greek, he will now be a Gaul,—“Gallus”, castrated Priest of Cybelé). bk. II. Epigr. 46., Quae tibi non stabat, praecisa est mentula, Glypte. Demens, cum ferro quid tibi? Gallus eras. (Your member, Glyptus, that you could never get to stand erect, has been cut. Fool,—why! what had you to do with the knife? You were a “Gallus” already). bk. III. Epigr. 81., Abscissa est quare Samia tibi mentula testa, Si tibi tam gratus, Baetice, cunnus erat? (Why has your member been cut with a Samian potsherd, if the female organ, Baeticus, was so dear to you)?