[386] _Pollux_, Onomast. bk. IV. ch. 26. 206., θηρίωμα, γίνεται μὲν ἕλκος περὶ ἀνδρῶν αἰδοῖα, ἔστι δὲ ὅτε καὶ περὶ δακτ_ύλους_ [read δακτυ_λιους_], καὶ ἀλλὰχοῦ, αἷμα πολὺ καὶ μέλαν καὶ δυσῶδες ἀφιὲν μετὰ μελανίας τὴν σάρκα ἀνεσθίον. (θηρίωμα,—malignant sore, is an ulcer affecting men’s privates, as well as sometimes the fingers (? the anus), and other parts, discharging much black evil-smelling blood, accompanied with black colour and eating away the flesh). [387] _Sextus Placitus Papyriensis_, XV. 3. [388] _Galen_, Isagog. ch. 11. (XIV. p. 719.), ταῖς δὲ γυναιξὶν ἡ ὑστέρα ἔοικεν ὀσχῇ ἀνεστραμμένῃ, (but in women the vagina is like a scrotum inverted), though in accordance with what comes next the uterus may also by understood to be here intended. Commentar. in Hippocrat. De Alimento (XV. p. 326.), περὶ δὲ τῆς ὑστέρας ὀλίγα ῥηθήσεται· καὶ πρῶτον μὲν, πότερον ὑστέρον ἢ μήτραν κλητέον ἐστὶ τὸ μόριον ἐκεῖνο, ὃ πρὸς τὴν κύησιν ἔδωκε φύσις ταῖς γυναιξὶν, οὐδὲν διαφέρει. (Now about the vagina we shall not say much. However first of all we may remark as to the question whether we should name the part which nature has given to women for connection ὑστέρος or μήτρα, that this is a matter of indifference). Moreover the Physicians use κόλπος (fold, bosom), e. g. _Galen_, De tumoribus praeter naturam ch. 4. (VII. p. 717.) for the vaginal canal, as the Romans did _sinus_ (fold, bosom) in Latin. [389] _Celsus_, bk. V. ch. 25. _Marcellus_, De medic, ch. 7. 17. _Sextus Placitus Papyriensis_ II. 7., XV. 2., XXXI. 12. _L. Apuleius_, De herb. XLIX. 1., LXXIV. 3., CXXI. 2. [390] _Celsus_, bk. V. 28. 25. _Galen_, Vol. II. p. 150., X. p. 993. XI. p. 9. 1001., XVI. p. 180., XVII. B. pp. 274, 855., XIX., p. 428, _Oribasius_, De virt. simpl. bk. II. 1. under word “Leucoion”, De loc. affect. bk. IV. ch. 112. _Aëtius_, Tetrab. I. serm. 1. under word “Leucoion”, Tetrab. IV. serm. 4. ch. 83. _Actuarius_, Method. med. bk. VI. chs. 8, 9. [391] _Aretaeus_, De sign. chron. bk. II. ch. 11. [392] _Aëtius_, Tetrab. IV. serm. 4. chs. 88-94. [393] The uterine speculum is mentioned by _Aëtius_ also chs. 86, 88. and its use described; as also by _Paulus Aegineta_, bk. III. ch. 65., bk. VI. ch. 73., and for the examination of the rectum, bk. VI. ch. 78. [394] _Galen_, De loc. affect. bk. VI. ch. 5. (VIII. p. 436.). _Paulus Aegineta_, bk. III. chs. 59, 75. _Aëtius_, Tetrab. IV. serm. 2. ch. 15., serm. 4. ch. 107. [395] _Hippocrates_, De natura muliebri Vol. II. pp. 586, (588), 591., De morbis mulier. bk. II. Vol. II. 878. [396] _Nonnus_, Epitom. ch. 206., distinguishes between ῥυπάρον ἕλκος, νομὴ μετὰ φλεγμονῆς (foul ulcer, eating sore with inflammation) and ἄνευ φλεγμονῆς νομή (eating sore without inflammation); as does _Paulus Aegin._, bk. III. ch. 66. [397] By means of the uterine syringe, μητρεγχύτης. _Galen_, Synopsis medic. sec. loc. IX. ch. 8. (XIII. p. 316.). _Oribasius_, Collect. medic. bk. X. ch. 25.