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(41 The son of Lucius was attiu-ked with a pleurisy and his life was de- 

 spaired of. The god, wlio appeared to him in a dream, ordered him to take 

 ashes from the altar, mix them with wine, and apply to his side. He was 

 saved, and came to thank the god before all the people, who wished him all 



Fig. 



-HirrocuATEs. 



kinds of prosperity. (See Hundertmarck, " De Incrementis Artis Medicae.") 

 Cat. No. 143,519, U.S.N.M. 



Hippocrates. — Called the " Father of Medicine." Boru on the Island of 

 Cos in the year 460 B. C. He belonged to the family of the Asclepiadae, a 

 gild of priest-physicians reputed to be descendants of Aesculapius, from whom 



