same purpose. When the flesh is livid, he directs us previously to make deep incisions in it. The diet is to be plain and digestible; sulphureous baths are to be used: the patient is to swim frequently in sea-water, to take a sea voyage, and otherwise not neglect suitable exercise. Plutarch informs us that it was disputed in his time whether or not elephantiasis was a new complaint. Galen, as far as we can recollect, has nowhere treated very particularly of elephantiasis, but in his work ‘De Causis Morborum’ he has briefly mentioned that in this disease the nose becomes flattened, the lips thick, and the ears extenuated, the whole appearance resembling that of a satyr: and in his work entitled ‘De Curatione ad Glauconem’ he ranks elephantiasis with cancerous swellings, and says that the disease is common about Alexandria, owing to the heat of the place and the food of the inhabitants, which consists principally of lentils, snails, pickles, the flesh of asses, and the like, all which things have a tendency to engender the melancholic humour. The temperature of the place likewise, he shrewdly remarks, determines the superfluities of the system to the skin. He recommends the treatment which we have already had occasion to mention, namely, bleeding, purging, and the theriac of vipers. In the ‘Isagoge,’ the black and white hellebores are particularly commended. Galen elsewhere calls it contagious. (Lib. ii, Simpl. de carne viperæ.) Oribasius gives no description of the disease, but briefly recommends the theriac of vipers, and in certain cases purging and bleeding for the cure of it.