efore he was deemed worthy of the post of state
physician.

(7) Jowett: Dialogues of Plato, 3d ed., Statesman, Vol. IV,
p. 502 (Stephanus, II, 298 E)

"If you and I were physicians, and were advising one another that we
were competent to practice as state-physicians, should I not ask about
you, and would you not ask about me, Well, but how about Socrates
himself, has he good health? and was anyone else ever known to be cured
by him whether slave or freeman?"(7a)

(7a) Jowett: Dialogues of Plato, 3d ed., Gorgias, Vol. II,
p. 407 (Stephanus, I, 514 D).

All that is known of these state physicians has been collected by
Pohl,(8) who has traced their evolution into Roman times. That they were
secular, independent of the AEsculapian temples, that they were well
paid, that there was keen competition to get the most distinguished
men, that they were paid by a special tax and that they were much
esteemed--are facts to be gleaned from Herodotus and from the
inscriptions. The lapidary records, extending over 1000 years, collected
by Professor Oehler(8a) of Reina, throw an important light on the state
of medicine in Greece and Rome. Greek vases give representations of
these state doctors at work. Dr. E. Pottier has published one showing
the treatment of a patient in the clinic.(8b)

(8) R. Pohl: De Graecorum medicis publicis, Berolini,
Reimer, 1905; also Janus, Harlem, 1905, X, 491-494.

(8a) J Oehler: Janus, Harlem, 1909, XIV, 4; 111.

(8b) E. Pottier: Une clinique grecque au Ve siecle,
Monuments et Memoires, XIII, p. 149. Paris, 1906 (Fondation
Eugene Piot).

That dissections were practiced by this group of nature philosophers is
shown not only by the studies of Alcmaeon, but we have evidence that one
of the latest of them, Diogenes of Apollonia, must have made elaborate
dissections. In the "Historia Animalium"(9) of Aristotle occurs his
account of the blood vessels, which is by far the most elaborate met
with in the literature until the writings of Galen. It has, too, the
great merit of accuracy (if we bear in mind the fact that it was not
until after Aristotle that arteries and veins were differentiated), and
indications are given as to the vessels from which blood may be drawn.

(9) The Works of Aristotle, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Vol.
IV, 1910, Bk. III, Chaps. II-IV, pp. 511b-515b.

ASKLEPIOS

No god made with hands, to use the scriptural phr