"affection of the lung"; with a vertical stroke in
the centre it means as Ι said "probable"; Ρ means
"flux," "rigor"; Φ "phrenitis" or "consumption";
Σ "convulsion" or "morbid condition of oesophagus
or mouth"; Τ "delivery"; Υ "recovery of health"
or "hypochondrium"; Χ "bile" or "bilious"; Ψ
"chill"; Ω "crudity."
For more information about the characters see
Littré, III. pp. 28-33, and various notes at the end
of the cases, and also Ilberg in Kéhlewein's edition,
p. 245.
As might have been expected, there is considerable
doubt as to the right readings of these characters.
Thus in V the characters at the end of Case I
(first series) are :--
?? ΖΣΜΟΝ
where the first character is obviously another form
of Galen's ??. Ilberg emends to :--
?? ΖΣΜΟΝΥ>
Galen reads :--
?? ΠΟΥΜΥ
i. e. πιθανόν.
πλῆθος2.
οὖρα.
τεσσαράκοντα.
ὑγίεια.
"It is probable that abundance of urine caused
recovery in forty days."
Galen's reading makes it necessary to take the
words of the text, μετὰ δὲ κρίσιν, τεσσαράκοντα
