[130] Iliad, xix.
[131] Ibid., xi.
[132] Nemean Ode, iii.
[133] It is worthy of remark that, while the form of Chiron, or Cheiron, serves as a pharmacist’s symbol, he has, probably, bequeathed his name to the healer of wounds and the like,—the surgeon. The word surgeon is from the Latin, chirurgus, or, rather, the French, chirurgien. Chirurgeon has some standing as an English word. The Latin, chirurgus, is usually said to have come from the Greek, χειρουργικος, a word compounded of χειρ, the hand, and ἐργος, worker, meaning one who works with the hand. It seems likely, however, that the name of the Centaur, χειρων, suggested the application of the word to the surgeon.
[134] Diodorus, iv; Pindar’s Pythian Ode, iii.
[135] Apollodorus, ii.
[136] Hyginus. Poet. Ast., ii.
[137] Natural History, xxix.
[138] Æneid, vii.
[139] Pythian Ode, iii.