[1208]. Beckmann, History of Inventions, ii. 122, sqq.
[1209]. See, on this subject, Dissen. ad Pind. Pyth. iii. 47. 51. I may here, however, by the way, remark, that while the free citizens were attended by physicians of their own rank, there were likewise servile practitioners who prescribed for the diseases of slaves. Plat. De Leg. iv. t. vii. p. 362, seq. Cf. Poll. iv. 177, sqq.
[1210]. Aristot. Poet. c. 22, Rhet. iii. 2.
[1211]. Luc. adv. Indoct. § 29.
[1212]. Dioscor. proœm. p. 4.
[1213]. On the primitive instruments of surgery see Goguet, Origine des Loix. t. ii. p. 17.
[1214]. Beckmann, History of Inventions, iii. 160.
[1215]. Poll. iv. 181.
[1216]. Dioscorides, however, who mentions this work, is far from speaking of the plan with praise: ἥμαρτον δὲ καὶ περὶ τὴν τάξιν· οἱ μὲν ἀσυμφύλους δυνάμεις συγκρούσαντεσ· οἱ δὲ κατὰ στοιχεῖα ἀναγράψαντες. διέζευξαν τῆς ὁμογενείας τὰ τε γένη καὶ τὰς ἐνεργείας αὐτῶν, ὡς διὰ τοῦτο ἀσυμμνημόνευτα γίνεσθαι. Proœm. p. 2.
[1217]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 15. 3, sqq.