Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian.
Francis Adams LL.D., Ed.

1 i have followed the reading suggested by Wigan, and adopted by Ermerins. Χρόνια is wanting in all the mss., but seems indispensable.

2 i admit there is something equivocal in the text of this remarkable sentence; but I have not ventured to alter it. Wigan reads: Οὔτε γὰρ θρύπτεται ἤ πόσι, ἤ φαρμάκῳ ἀμφιθρύπτῳ, κ.τ. λ. Ermerins is still bolder in the liberties he uses: Οὔτε γὰρ ὅδε θρύπτεται πόσι, οὔτε ἀσινέως τέμνεται. By the way, he might well have spared one word which he ejects, by reading πόσι φαρμάκων. Were I to meddle with the text at all, I should propose to read as follows: Οὔτε γὰρ θρύπτεται ἢ πόσι φαρμάκων, ἢ ἀμφιθρύπτοιτο ῾ ἀμφιθρύπτεταἰ̣ οὔτε ἀσινέως τέμνεται. I am willing to believe that the passage contains allusions to Lithotripsy, Lithotrity, and Lithotomy!! See Paulus aegineta, t. ii ... 359, Syd. Soc. Ed.

3 the last four words are added by Ermerins to supply a lacuna in the text. The lacuna is not marked in our British mss.