[4] Plato, Menex.
[5] Celsus mentions Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Democritus, as the most distinguished of the philosophers who cultivated medicine.—Præfat.
[6] “Hippocrates primus ab studio sapientiæ disciplinam hanc separavit.”—Præfat.
[7] See the authorities quoted at Paulus Ægineta, Vol. I., p. 73, Syd. Soc. edition; also in particular Xenophon’s Memorabilia, iii., 13; and Pausanias, ii., 2. The most complete list which is anywhere given of the ancient Asclepia, is that contained in Schulze’s History of Medicine, i., 24. It is to be regretted, however, that the references to Pausanias are made according to the pages of an old edition, instead of books and chapters, so that one experiences some difficulty in finding the passages referred to. The number of Asclepia in Greece noticed by him is sixty-four. Plutarch states in positive terms that all the Temples of Health were erected in high situations, and where the air was wholesome.—(Quæst. Rom.) On the practice of medicine in the Ancient Temples of Health, see further Sprengel, Hist. de la Méd., e. v. Sprengel, however, does not acknowledge so candidly as he ought to have done his obligations to his predecessor Schulze.
[8] Philostratus, Vita Apollonii, i., 9; Strabo, Geogr., xiv.
[9] Pausanias, vii., 21.
[10] This I have reason to know is the belief of the learned and estimable author of the Isis Revelata.
[11] Aristides, Orat. in Æsculap., viii. It may be proper to state that Sprengel, in referring to this passage (Hist. de la Méd., p. 160. French edition), falls into the mistake of saying that these medicines were prescribed to Aristides himself.
[12] Galen, de Administ, Anatom., ii.
[13] Censura Operum Hippocrat., p. 184.