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Rh Andes), as the patient lies supine, with his face turned to the skies, in a bath which comes level with his mouth (cum voce), the great heat of which bath is denoted by (focis), as its containing an infusion of purifying aromatic herbs may be by (munera intemerata), though these words, as coupled with (libo), should at the same time seem to imply the patient’s drinking a quantity of hot tea (implied perhaps by te, in intemerata). After he has thus lain in the bath a full hour (perfecto honore) with the fires that heat it well lighted, or strongly burning (lætus) ; I produce the effect of ensuring (facio certum) the ague-fit (implied by Anchisen, near the ice, or a fit nearly allied to ice in its nature), and thus in due order acquire a key to the fever (remque ordine pando) ; or these last words may perhaps imply (and then in due order resort to the use of cathartics). Of the next two lines, the first seems to intimate that the patient, in consequence of such a process, shews the twofold nature of his complaint, cold and hot, ague and fever ; and the second, when