[414] _Sextus Placitus Papyriensis_, De medicamentis ex animal. ch. 1. note 14., Cervi pudenda si tecum habueris, inguina tibi non tumebunt, et si tumor antiquus fuerit, velociter recedet. (If you carry with you a stag’s genitals, your groin will never swell, and if you have a long-standing swelling, it will quickly disappear.) We must further note supplementarily that _Prophylactics against female gonorrhœa_ appear also to have been known and used; at any rate _Galen_, Euporist. bk. II. ch. 26. note 37. (XIV. p.485.), cites measures against humidity of the genital organs during coition πρὸς τὸ μὴ καθυγραίνεσθαι τὸ αἰδοῖον ἐν ταῖς συνουσίαις τῶν γυναικῶν;—(to guard against the humidity of the genitals in coition amongst women), consisting in fact in unripe gall-apples, ashes and wine as a lotion, or infusion of gall-apples with sulphurated wool as a vaginal-plug, honey and nitre as an embrocation! [415] _Galen_, Method. med. bk. II. ch. 2. (X. p. 83). [416] _Hippocrates_, Aphorismor. Vol. III. p. 742., De liquidorum usu Vol. II. p. 163. [417] _Galen_, Synops. medic. sec. loc. bk. IX. ch. 8. (XIII. p. 317). [418] _Celsus_, bk. V. ch. 28. _Oribasius_, De morb. crat. bk. III. ch. 54. Synops. bk. VII. ch. 37, ch. 42., Collect. bk. XLIV. ch. 11. Mai loco cit. p. 31. _Aëtius_, Tetrab. IV. serm. 2. ch. 61. _Paulus Aegineta_ bk. IV. ch. 9. [419] _Hippocrates_, Prorrhet. bk. II. Vol. I. p. 204. [420] _Aëtius_, Tetrab. IV. serm. 2. ch. 15. [421] _Aëtius_, Tetrab. IV. serm. 2. ch. 20. [422] _Galen_, Definit. medic. Vol. XIX. p. 446. [423] _Aëtius_, Tetrab. IV. serm. 2. ch. 3. [424] _Oribasius_, Synops. medic. sec. loc. bk. V. ch. 4. (XII. p. 823.). _Aëtius_, Tetrab. II. serm. 4. ch. 14. [425] _Oribasius_, Synops. bk. VII. ch. 40. _Aëtius_, loco citato. _Paulus Aegineta_, bk. III. ch. 3. [426] _Marcellus_, De medic. ch. 31., gives prescriptions “ad ficos qui in locis verecundioribus nascuntur,” (for fig-like swellings that occur in the more private parts). _Nonnus_, Epit. 214. [427] _Aspasia_, De natura mulier. Vol. II. p. 588., De morb. mulier. bk. II. Vol. II. p. 879. The Etymologicum Magnum under the word explains κίων by ἀπὸ τοῦ κίειν καὶ ἀνίεναι εἰς ὕψος (so called from its going upwards and rising to a height). Comp. _Phil. Ingrassias_, De tumor. praet. natur. p. 273. [428] _Aëtius_, Tetrab. IV. serm. 4. ch. 106. [429] _Celsus_, bk. VI. ch. 18. _Aëtius_, Tetrab. IV. serm. 2. ch. 3. _Paulus Aegineta_, bk. III. ch. 59., bk. IV. ch. 15., bk. VI. ch. 80. _Sextus Placitus Papyriensis_, XI. 7. _Apuleius_, De herb. LXXX. 8. A large number of remedies against them are given by _Galen_: Vol. XIII. 309, 312, 422, 447, 512, 560, 715, 738, 781, 787, 824, 828, 831, 833, 837, 840.