DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTISPIECE ILLUSTRATING 
PATHOLOGY. 
APOTHEOSIS OF HIPPOCRATES. 
SEATED IN AN ANTIQUE CAR, DRAWN TOWARDS THE TEMPLE OF IMMORTALITY BY 
CHIRON AND ANOTHER CENTAUR EQUALLY VERSED IN THE ART OF HEALING,— 
HIPPOCRATES HOLDS IN HIS RIGHT HAND THE PATERA OF HEALTH, AND IN HIS LEFT 
THE STAFF AND SERPENT OF jESCULAPIUS, WHOSE DAUGHTER HYGEIA IS REPRESENTED 
ABOVE,—STREWING MEDICINAL FLOWERS ON THE HEAD OF THE FIRST PATHOLOGIST 
IN THE WORLD; WHILST APOLLO, SHOOTING FROM THE CLOUDS 4T THE SERPENT 
PYTHON, AN EMBLEM OF PESTILENCE, SETS FREE FROM THE CAVERN OF THE MONSTER 
THE VICTIMS OF DISEASE. DEATH AND THE DEMONS OF LINGERING ANGUISH AND 
EXCRUCIATING PAIN ARE SEEN FLYING OFF; AND NAUSEATING SICKNESS IS 
EXEMPLIFIED BY AN EMACIATED FIGURE ON THE FOREGROUND 
