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The work of Adaniantius, from which /Etius took the contents of the
chapters thus entitled, is lost to iis, but we liave no reason, and not e\en
the least indication, for supposing that this work was a treatise on dental
diseases, and not one on general medicine. It is absurd to consider the
above-mentioned titles as belonging to an odontological monograph,
on the one hand, because, admitting for a moment the existence of such
a work, it should have had but one title and not two, and on the other
hand, because it is by no means to be supposed that a great and wise
physician, such as Adaniantius undoubtedly was, should ha\e had the
whim to write a book, not on dental disease or on dental pains in general,
but only and exclusively on dental pains caused by heat or by dryness.
What reason would there have been for not extending the treatment of
the subject to those cases of odontalgia resulting from humidity or from
cold, that is, from causes as common and, according to the ideas of that
time, very frequently associated with one of the first two (as humidity
with heat, and cold with dr\"ness) ^
Besides, if the titles of the two chapters spoken of be compared with
those of the others, in which ^tius treats of dental affections, such analogy
will be noticed between the various titles as to make us consider that
they have been formulated by yEtius himself, even when the contents of
these chapters are taken from other writers. So that the two aforesaid
titles not only do not belong to any dental work, but probably they
have never existed, even as simple titles of chapters, in the medical book
of Adamantius, from which the contents of the two chapters of y^tius
above mentioned have been taken.
In order that every one may easily be convinced that the two titles
made so conspicuous by Dr. Geist-Jacobi have nothing particular about
them, but are, instead, perfectly analogous to the titles of various other
chapters of i^^tius, we give here the translation of the titles of live chapters,
all concerning dental maladies, that is, the two chapters in discussion
and other three:
Chapter XXVII: Cure of teeth affected by warm, painful disease,
according to Adamantius the sophist.
Chapter XXIX: Cure of teeth affected with pain from humidity.
Chapter XXXI: Cure of teeth affected by pain from dryness, according
to Adamantius the sophist.
Chapter XXXII: Cure of teeth affected by pain from heat and
humidity.
Chapter XXXIII: Cure of decayed teeth, according to Galen.
It appears very clear, therefore, from the great analogy existing between
the headings of all the above-mentioned chapters, that the titles referred
to by Geist-Jacobi have not at all the historical importance and signifi-
cance that he attributes to them, and that the same have been formulated