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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. PAETICTJLAKS EELATIYE TO HIPPOCEATES. DATE OF THE 
OEIGIN OE CLINICAL PEACTICE AND OF THAT OF lATEALlPTICS. 
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, 
and, as our fellow-countryman Yarro 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 Selymbria, 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. — =PAETICULAES EELATIVE TO CHEYSIPPUS AND EEASIS- 
TtiATUS. 
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 the 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 of philosophical incendiarism. 
^ " Clinice " — Chamber-physic, so called because the physician visited 
his patients iv KXivy, " in bed." 
^ It is supposed by most commentators that Pliny commits a mistake 
here, and that in reality he is alluding to Herodicus of Selymbria in Thrace, 
"who was the tutor ^ and not the disciple, of Hippocrates. Prodicus of Se- 
lymbria does not appear to be known. 
"Healing by ointments," or, as we should call it at the present day, 
*'The Friction cure." » Mediastinis." 
