Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine

by Sir James Elliott

APPENDIX.

FEES IN ANCIENT TIMES.

The professional incomes of doctors in ancient Greece and Rome varied greatly as at the present day. A few were paid very large fees, but the rank and file did not make more money than was equal to keeping them in decency.

Seleucus paid Erasistratus about £20,000 for curing his son Antiochus. Herodotus mentions that the Æginetans (532 B.C.) paid Democedes, from the public treasury, £304 a year; the Athenians afterwards paid him £406 a year, and at Samos he received £422 yearly. Pliny says that Albutius, Arruntius, Calpetanus, Cassius and Rubrius each made close upon £2,000 a year, and that Quintus Stertinius favoured the Emperor by accepting about £4,000 a year when he could have made more in private practice. The surgeon Alcon made a fortune of nearly £100,000 by a few years' practice in Gaul. Pliny states that Manlius Cornutus paid his doctor £2,000 for curing him of a skin disease, and Galen's fee for curing the wife of a consul was about £400 of our money.

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INDEX.

• Academics, [56]
• Adamantius, [116]
• Adams of Banchory, [31], [32], [124]
• Æsculapius, [3], [13], [14]
  • ——, College of, [6]
  • ——, temple of, [4], [14], [17]
• Ætius, [118]
• Agathinus, [87]
• Agrippa, [63]
• Alexander of Tralles, [119]
• Alexander the Great, [38], [40], [41]
• Alexandria, [42]
• Alexandrian School, [42]
• Anatomy, [27], [44], [46], [76], [101], [140]
• Andromachus, [68], [82]
• Antonius Musa, [65]
• Antyllus, [112]
• Apollo, [3], [13]
• Apollonius, [80]
  • ——, alleged miracles of, [81]
• Aqueducts, [9], [155]
• Archagathus, [5]
• Archiater, [6], [68]
• Archigenes, [88]
• Aretæus, [87]
• Aristotle, [25], [40]
• Asclepiadæ, [18], [40], [44]
• Asclepiades of Prusa, [23], [51], [146]
• Asklepieion of Cos, [19]
• Astrology, [68]
• Athenæus, [86]
• Athletes, [147]
• Augustus, [63]
• Aurelianus, [91]

• Baths, Greek, [148]
  • ——, Roman, [149]
• Baths of Caracalla, [44], [153]
  • —— at Pompeii, [152]
• Byzantine Period, [111]

• Cabalists, [128]
• Cælius Aurelianus, [91]
• Cæsar, Julius, [44], [54], [55]
• Caligula, [67]
• Caracalla, [44], [153]
• Cassius Felix, [89]
• Catacombs, [160]
• Cato the Elder, [7], [8]
• Celsus, [48], [72]
  • ——, works of, [73]
• Christ, miracles of, [138]
• Christianity, [128]
  • —— and hospitals, [133]
• Chrysippos, [46]
• Claudius, [67]
• Cleombrotus, [46]
• Cloaca Maxima, [8], [159]
• Cnidos, [17], [44], [50]
• Constantine, [130]
• Cornelius Agrippa, [1]
• Cos, [17], [44]
• Cremation, [159]