tues of ordinary table plants. History records that his royal 
patron being ill, he forbade his using lettuce. Being discharged, 
his successor at once placed the patient upon a course of that 
herb, with the effect of a speedy cure. 
Again. It has been supposed that certain coins of Smyrna 
^were struck in honor of physicians of that city; a view that was 
strongly urged by Dr. Richard Mead, of London (Dissertatio, 
etc., already mentioned), and later by an anonymous writer 
(Auslegung, etc., also previously catalogued). There was a 
very long discussion of the subject by Renauldin ( Loc . cit., pp. 
476-490), and Mead’s theory has been controverted by the 
Biographie Universelle and the Biographie Medicale. Dr. Wm. 
Lee, of Washington, D. C., whose collection of medical medals 
now belongs to the U. S. Government, read a very interesting 
paper upon the question, as yet unpublished, on May iS, 1S80, 
before the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society of 
New York. In this he was inclined to defend the opinion of 
Dr. Mead. It seems now, however, the general verdict of nu¬ 
mismatists that the names (Zeuxis, Hippias, etc.) upon these 
Smyrniote coins are not those of physicians, but of magistrates. 
A list of the medals classed by Mead as those of “ Smyrnaei 
medici ” is contained in the Museum Meadianum (Catalogue of 
his collections, which were sold subsequently to his death), 
London, 1755, 8°, pp. 33 - 35 * 
There is another series, however, about which there would 
seem no question, though I have as yet failed to find their true 
character appreciated by any writer. That they are commem¬ 
orative of physicians, the medical emblems upon them would 
prove. They are of the island of Cos, already mentioned as 
the residence of Hippocrates. 
Antiochus. 
62. Oln'trse. Head bound by a narrow fillet. Inscription : 
HIM.IA Zm 0 A AMOS. 
Racrse. Laureated head of Aesculapius. Inscription ; 
A STIOXOS KQIQW 
