Volume 1

Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature.

Date:
1825
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Credit: Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lens, father of Achilles; Achilles; Machaon and Podalirius, sons and successors of iEsculapius; Castor and Pollux; Elebotes, son of Teleon, a chief of the Argonauts. For a complete enumeration of the different discoveries imputed to each individual chief or sovereign, see the initiatory pages of Le Clercs Hist, de la Med. with those of Haller's Bib. Med. Prac. and of his Bibl. Chirurg. Batan. and Anatom. It is singular that neither the Swiss nor French compiler should have noticed the uni- versal high rank possessed by all these primary benefactors of Medicine in Greece. Even Cel- sus, in his little elegant introduction, when he celebrates the chirurgical skill of iEsculapius and his two sons Podalirius and Machaon, seems by no means aware that it Was a quality common to other Grecian princes and leaders. The same omission is chargeable on all other historians of medicine.—s. PARACELSUS. Aureolus Philippus Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombast de Hohenheim, was the son of Wil- helmus Hohenheim, a learned man, and licentiate in physic; though a slender practitioner, but possessed of a noble library; being himself the natural son of a master of the Teutonic order.