An Ancient Treatise on Embryology

MINOIID)ES M\IYN.\S, II the cotirse of a visit to thue imonasterics of \louiit .\thos, unidertaken on the inst ructiois of V liemain, Minister of E(duCationl inI f-'rance from 1840 till 1P845, fouLnd(i a umb1er)( of litlherto tiunkniowxnl (Greck; manuscripts .\Anong these was one xliicli coitanle(d tile cmiiltlsiotn of (Galcn 's ()n I)ccline,'' the wvhole of Galelln sIlitrolttioLn t (o ) I o ic and a treatiseicu(licr tle title "(Galcii to (iaurus on How Enil)rva Beconic Living, l3cin-s'." I'lic last oft flise works, wlilch is that with which wc are coliccriled, is sCriou.sIV lltItila1tCd aIt tilie enIdI. Mviias hlimsieslf believed the id (; loiirinm to be a gentliiiic work Of GaleII, btt Sinice tlici Klbatleisci , in llis e(litioli of it (A.1 uil, ug -it dc. :1A/)/lind/lit tivLn tid r 1 kadenie /ic iI 'issc)isclitift --i Hrli I i )95), has pro(ltlce(l \vry colvillciproof that it is not a worlk of (Galen, but of Imorphyry, the Neoplatonic philosoplier. Hcr-c \e have space for only a brief Su.mi11ar-V of Kalbltci sih 's ar-uiments. irst, lie ar-timents to show that thlc treatis is li)t 1)v ;aiell It is not ninti med ill (Gialcn s own indices of hi's orks. (ii) It is nlot referred to inI an'! of tihe works whilch we kniow to be by (Galen, thogIl th ise arctf ill itf q uiatoiions Ifroni liis othcr \wcirk s, iiioir does it refer to anv othur \w\irk on enibry)ulo>'\ lV its atho0r. (iii) (ialeii as a rtile lft aIsidCe all iCtaI)iVS1(idl ifstiils), colini' h-ilSCisf to til empirical, btit lii treatise frc1u(tlvrefers\ to Imetapilysics.