[410] De Anima, c. 10, p. 757.
[411] De Medic., i. Præf., p. 6.
[412] Baas, Hist. of Med., pp. 121-123.
[413] Puschmann, Hist. Med. Educ., p. 76.
[414] Plutarch’s Life of Demetrius.
[415] He modified his opinions on the nerves by careful dissections, and greatly improved his physiology.
[416] Baas, Hist. of Med., pp. 121-123.
[417] Le Clerc, Hist. de la Méd., Pt. II. c. iii.
[418] Dr. W. A. Greenhill, art. “Dogmatici,” Smith’s Dict. Class. Ant. Briefly, this was as much as to say that a man could not be an educated doctor who had not practised, or at least seen, human vivisection. As these have not been performed since the fifteenth century, when, as we shall learn, they were practised by Italian anatomists, it follows, according to the argument, that the Alexandrian physicians were better educated than our own!
[419] De Med., vii. 26. See also Smith’s Dict. Ant., p. 220.