[36] Linderer, op. cit.
[37] [The newer civilization of Japan has caused this custom to largely fall into disuse.—E. C. K.]
[38] Carabelli, loc. cit.
[39] Linderer, loc. cit.
[40] Carabelli, op. cit., p. 17.
[41] The Greek name Asklepios became in the Latin, Æsculapius; the two names are therefore equivalents.
[42] See Cicero, De Natura deorum, lib. iii, chap. xxii.
[43] [Homer speaks of them as “two excellent physicians,” and refers to Machaon as “a blameless physician,” and admits that “a medical man is equivalent to many others.” Their renown was continued in a poem of Arctinus, wherein one was represented as without a rival in surgery, the other as sagacious in detecting morbid symptoms.—C. M.]
[44] Praktische Darstellung aller Operationen der Zahnarznei-kunst, von Johann Jakob Joseph Serre, Berlin, pp. 7 to 13.
[45] Guardia, Histoire de la Médecine, p. 250.