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III.: LIBER DE ÆTATE. - Hippocrates, The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen [1846]

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The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen. Epitomised from the Original Latin translations, by John Redman Coxe (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1846).

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III.

LIBER DE ÆTATE.

Haller, iv. p. 208.

A small treatise of two pages, which Haller says is a fragment; in which the signs are pointed out of fœtal death at seven and eight months, in a better way than in the legitimate treatises under those titles. A description is given of certain human ova, of seven days’ formation, discharged by whores, through the agency of abortives; in which the outline of every part was conspicuous. Septenary periods of life, &c.

A small fragment on the same subject, by Philo, follows. It is entitled, “De Ætate Fragmentum, ex Philonis Judæi, de Opif. Mundi,” p. 24. It seems a mere abstract of the above, and of about the same estimate.