vjir 
448 ISLAND OF COS. 
CHAR sickness ; and these pictures are frequently- 
inscribed with the particulars of the case 
thereby commemorated. It was from a list of 
remedies collected in the temples, that Hippo- 
crates of Cos framed a regular set of canons 
for the art of medicine, and reduced the prac- 
tice of physic to a system'. 
representations of parts of the body restored to health : * Some,' he 
says, * offer up effigies {ix.TWjru-j.ocra.') of eyes ; others, of feet ; others, 
* of bauds ; made of gold aud silver.' 
" The same spirit of relij^ious feeling; which prompted the Pagans 
to make the offerings we have adverted to, urged them to consider 
themselves, in everj' transaction and situation of life, as under the 
presiding care of some Deity ; to whom, consequently, some mani- 
festation of gratitude was due, in all successful undertakings. The 
husbandman, after harvest, otTered up his instruments of husbandry; 
poets, and men of genius, consecrated their harps, lyres, and volumes, 
to Minerva and Apollo ; conquerors presented some of the spoils won 
in war*. The temples of the Greeks were, we know, used, by different 
States, as Banks : to this circumstance was owing, in pan, the vast 
wealth which they contained ; and this was increased by the costly 
offerings -}- in gold and silver, presented on various occasions." 
Walpole's MS. Journal. 
(l) " Tunc earn revocavit in luccm H/jipocrafcs, genitus in insuld 
Coo, in primis clarA ac valid&, et /Eseulapio dicata. Js, cum fuisset 
mos, liberatos morbis scribere in tenipio ejus Dei, quid auxiliatum 
esset, ut postea similitudo proficeret, exscripsisso ea traditur, atque 
(utVarro apud nos credit) jam templo cremato, instituisse medicinam 
banc, quae C//7nce vocatur." Plin. Hist. Nat. ?. xxix. c.\. to7n.\l\, 
p. 187. L. Bat. 1G35. 
* Of this description is the antient Arj^ire helmet found in the alhivial soil of tlie 
Alpheui, at Olympia, by Mr. Alotritt ; now in the possession of Mr. Knight. 
t One of the most antient oiferings in Greece was that hearing an inscription, in 
Cadmean letters, on a tripod, at Thebes. Ihrod. lib. v. p. 400. 'Aix(p,T(>iu>v ^i' aveBriKev 
Itov Una TnXf/Soaux, \wv is the emendation of Bal^iuirnera, veun is preferred by 
VUloiion, {Ante, n, 129.) with oi/eftjive. 
