[Footnote 45: The inhabitants of Constantinople were
generally subject; and Theophylact insinuates, (l. viii. c.
9,) that if it were consistent with the rules of history, he
could assign the medical cause. Yet such a digression would
not have been more impertinent than his inquiry (l. vii. c.
16, 17) into the annual inundations of the Nile, and all the
opinions of the Greek philosophers on that subject.]