. Annals of medical history. becauseit is by persistence in it that a cure is to befound. For the fourth type of this morbid pro-cess, Omar advises the use of an ointment ofacetate of lead, and of the operative treat-ment of the third type of the disease hesays: To treat the third kind, evert thelid, keep it turned up, and scrape it with the scalpel until the lid is cleansed and nogranulations remain. Then besprinkle withsaffron powder and apply a bandage for oneday. I would also add that Halifa ben AliMahasin, who practised at Aleppo wrote hisKitab al Kafi fil kuhl in which he depictsophthalm
. Annals of medical history. becauseit is by persistence in it that a cure is to befound. For the fourth type of this morbid pro-cess, Omar advises the use of an ointment ofacetate of lead, and of the operative treat-ment of the third type of the disease hesays: To treat the third kind, evert thelid, keep it turned up, and scrape it with the scalpel until the lid is cleansed and nogranulations remain. Then besprinkle withsaffron powder and apply a bandage for oneday. I would also add that Halifa ben AliMahasin, who practised at Aleppo wrote hisKitab al Kafi fil kuhl in which he depictsophthalmologic instruments, among thembeing the rose (ouardi) and semi-roscshapedscarifiers. Such are the data that the perusal of theArabian writings give us on the subject oftrachoma. It has often been said that thetherapeutics of the Arabs was purely empiri-cal and as such, does not merit our attentionas medical historians, but, in truth, is it notto empiricism that the science of therapeu-tics must appeal as a last resort? JOHN SHAW—A MEDICAL POET OF MARYLANDBy JOHN RUHRAH, BALTIMORE, MD. FROM the days when Nicias, astudent of medicine at Cos, pouredout his heart in verse to his ladylove, and Nicander, priest ofApollo and physician, sang of poisonsand venomous serpents, to the presenttroublous times, devotees of Erato andEuterpe have been recruited from theranks of the followers of ^sculapius. Somehave been true lyric poets, whilst othershave sought to teach while they sang andfrom the latter have come a number ofLehrgedichte, such as the Regimen SanitatisSalerni, La Balia (the Nurse), of Tansillo,the Callipsedia or the way to have Beauti-ful Children, of Claude Quillet, Paedotro-pbiae, or the Art of Bringing up Children,of Sainte Marthe, and Syphilis of Fracastor-ious. Some, like Garth in the Dispensarj%have satirized the times and not a fewmedical men have translated the classicpoets. There are physicians who have beenbetter poets than practitioners, as Keats,Goldsm
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