Chap. 3.] CHETSIPPUS. 371 



of the Trojan War, its traditions from that period have ac- 

 quired an additional degree of certainty; although in those 

 times, we may remark, the healing art confined itself solely to 

 the treatment of wounds. 



CHAP. 2. PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO HIPPOCRATES. DATE OF THE 



ORIGIN OF CLINICAL PRACTICE AND OF THAT OF lATRALlPTICS. 



Its succeeding history, a fact that is truly marvellous, re- 

 mains enveloped in the densest night, down to the time of 

 the Peloponnesian War ;* at which period it was restored to 

 light by the agency of Hippocrates, a native of Cos, an island 

 flourishing and powerful in the highest degree, and consecrated 

 to ^sculapius. It being the practice for persons who had re- 

 covered from a disease to describe in the temple of that god the 

 remedies to which they had owed their restoration to health, 

 that others might derive benefit therefrom in a similar emer- 

 gency ; Hippocrates, it is said, copied out these prescriptions, 

 aud, as our fellow-countryman Varro will have it, after burn- 

 ing the temple to the ground,** instituted that branch of medi- 

 cal practice which is known as "Clinics."" There was no 

 limit after this to the profits derived from the practice of medi- 

 cine ; for Prodicus,^ a native of SeljTnbria, one of his disciples, 

 founded the branch of it known as '' latraliptics,"' and so dis- 

 covered a means of enriching the very anointers even and the 

 commonest drudges^ employed by the physicians. 



CHAP. 3. — ^PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO CHRYSIPPUS AND ERASIS- 



TRATUS. 



In the rules laid down by these professors, changes were 

 effected by Chrysippus with a vast parade of words, and, after 



* Hippocrates is generally supposed to have been born b.c. 460. 



^* In order to destroy th<' medical books and prescriptions there. The 

 same story is told, with little variation, of Avicenna. Cnidos is also men- 

 tioned as the scene of this act oi philosophical incendiarism. 



^ "Clinice" — Chamber-physic, so called because the physician visited 

 his patients h' kXivij^ "in bed." 



'^ It is supposed by most commentators that Pliny commits a mistake 

 here, and that in reality lie is alluding' to Ilerodicusof Selymbriain Thmce, 

 who was the tutor, and not the disciple, of lli[)p()crates. Prodicus of Se- 

 lynibria does not appear to be known. 



^ "Healing by ointments," or, as we should call it at the present day, 

 " The Friction cure." " " Mediasiinis." 



