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from a most dangerous malad}', by following a mode of treat- 
ment diametrically opposite. 
I pass over in silence many physicians of the very highest 
celebrity, the Cassii, for instance, the Calpetani, the Arruntii, 
and the Eubrii, men who received fees yearly from the great, 
amounting to no less than two hundred and fifty thousand 
sesterces. As for Q. Stertinius, he thought that he conferred 
an obligation upon the emperors in being content with five 
hundred thousand^^ sesterces per annum ; and indeed he proved, 
by an enumeration of the several houses, that a city practice 
would bring him in a yearly income of not less than six hun- 
dred thousand sesterces. 
Fully equal to this was the sum lavished upon his brother 
by Claudius Caesar ; and the two brothers, although they had 
drawn largely upon their fortunes in beautifying the public 
buildings at ITeapolis, left to their heirs no less than thirty 
millions of sesterces I^"^ such an estate as no physician but Ar- 
runtius had till then possessed. 
I^ext in succession arose Yettius Valens, rendered so noto- 
rious by his adulterous connections^ with Messalina, the wife 
of Claudius Caesar, and equally celebrated as a professor of 
eloquence. "When established in public favour, he became the 
founder of a new sect. 
It was in the same age, too, during the reign of the Emperor 
!Nero, that the destinies of the medical art passed into the 
hands of Thessalus,^^ a man who swept away all the precepts 
of his predecessors, and declaimed with a sort of frenzy against 
the physicians of every age ; but with what discretion and 
in what spirit, we may abundantly conclude from a single trait 
presented by his character — upon his tomb, which is still 
to be seen on the Appian Way, he had his name inscribed as 
the latronices" — the Conqueror of the Physicians." No 
stage-player, no driver of a three-horse chariot, had a greater 
throng attending him when he appeared in public : but he 
was at last eclipsed in credit by Crinas, a native of Massilia, 
who, to wear an appearance of greater discreetness and more 
devoutness, united in himself the pursuit of two sciences, and 
^6 Rather more than £4400. More than £265,000. 
For which he was put to death a.d. 48. 
19 A native of Tralles in Lydia, and the son of a weaver there. Galen 
mentions hira in terms of contempt and ridicule. 
