airs, waters, places
Crossed the river into a nearby state to receive the usual seasonal vaccinations, because the vacillations of the local authorities, who must balance the ires of urban and rural, held little hope of remediation. Spent the afternoon reading a book on Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy that provides a fairly clear explanation (perhaps too clear) of neo-Galenic medical thought, but which cites classical sources (e.g., Galen and Hippocrates) based on the dates of modern editions rather than standard abbreviated names or other conventional terms. This strikes me as odd, because I do not find ‘Hippocrates 1995’ to be a particularly helpful reference, especially if it does not appear in the reference list. 1 The publisher does not have an errata slip for the volume, and it seems a stupid thing to send an email about, as it is unlikely, given book prices and inter-library loan limits, that I will try to find the book in question. Given that the reference will remain intangible, I am content, for the moment, to let it be imaginary as well.
- Giving the benefit of the doubt (and applying a smattering of common sense), it is probably a typo for ‘Hippocrates 1990’, but that, too, obscures more than it illuminates.[↩]