Annals of medical history . tempt at reform—the foundationof a monastic academy2—so disturbed opin-ion that it was abandoned as too revolu-tionary. But though Illiterate, our MS. is 2 This event took place in i~4 in the monastery ofVathopedi. A short account of it and of the generalhistory and state of the Holy Mountain may befound in Alfred Smidtke, Das KJosterland desAthos, Leipzig, 1903. Byzantine Medical Fragments 339 not without linguistic interest. Thus for in-stance the curious Italianate word aou[xaptaov(Italian summare) reflects for us the Venetiandominance in the fourteenth century.
Annals of medical history . tempt at reform—the foundationof a monastic academy2—so disturbed opin-ion that it was abandoned as too revolu-tionary. But though Illiterate, our MS. is 2 This event took place in i~4 in the monastery ofVathopedi. A short account of it and of the generalhistory and state of the Holy Mountain may befound in Alfred Smidtke, Das KJosterland desAthos, Leipzig, 1903. Byzantine Medical Fragments 339 not without linguistic interest. Thus for in-stance the curious Italianate word aou[xaptaov(Italian summare) reflects for us the Venetiandominance in the fourteenth century. Our MS. represents but one of the hun-dred forms in which the belief is expressedthat simple mathematical relationships gov- trary use of accents. The script is difficult,and there still remain one or two doubtfulreadings. These I have indicated in thenotes. For suggestions with reference tothese I have to thank Dr. E. T. Withington,Mr. J. S. Scott of Emanuel College, Cam-bridge, and Mr. Peckham, till lately the. m „• ^ a c e *,f n,j ... e a »< ?,,: £ ij i a 5 yi\1 ajV^e S - ii ??•.< ? 3 ; v<^« em not only the phenomena of nature butalso the events—both great and small—ofhuman life. That idea, fathered frequentlyon Pythagoras, became especially popularwith the spread of Hermetic and Neo-platonic doctrines. It was very widely heldthroughout the Dark and Middle Ages and,encouraged by all kinds of mystical andcabalistic writings, it is still commonlyencountered among the ignorant and super-stitious in every country. With the Greekssuch ideas have ever been popular, and havebecome associated with that passion forprognosis that has always characterizedtheir Medical Systems. In the transcription I have sought to re-produce the document as it stands, and theoriginal scribe is responsible for the faultygrammar as well as for the somewhat arbi- British vice-consul at Uskub. In the trans-lation I have been compelled to omit thelast sentence
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