What says my Æsculapius? my Galen?...
Ha! is he dead?
Shakespeare,
Merry Wives of Windsor
, act ii.
sc. 3 (1601).
Ae'son, the father of Jason. He was restored to youth by Medea, who infused into his veins the juice of certain herbs.
In such a night,
Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs
That did renew old Aeson.